Madras HC Pulls up Tamil Nadu Govt For Allotting Separate Crematorium to Vellore Dalits Who Were Forced to Airdrop Body

The Madras High Court has expressed displeasure over the Tamil Nadu Government’s move to a build separate crematorium for the Dalit community. This move comes after the court took suo-moto cognizance of a viral video that showed a corpse being lowered from atop a 20 ft bridge.

Members of the Dalit community in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore were forced to lower the body of 46-year-old Kuppan from a 20-feet-high bridge after the upper caste community allegedly denied permission for the funeral procession to be taken through their agricultural fields.