CORPSE OF DALIT BURIED IN DISPUTED BURIAL GROUND DESPITE POLICE RESISTANCE IN SORISPURAM

The burial ground in the enjoyment of dalit People of Sorispuram in Tuticorin District(TN) for more than 6 decades was all of a sudden denied on the ground that it located in a patta land of a private party.The dalit people under the banner of TN Untouchability Eradication front(TNUEF)undertook different form of struggle but in vain. A picketing of Collectorate on 5.7.10 was declared.In the meantime one Sri nainar of age 85 died of sickness all of a sudden.
The villagers led by TNUEF leaders P.Esakkimuthu(District Convener),K.P.Perumal(District Secretary of AIKS)K.S.Arjunan(Town Secretary of CPI(M) and Sankarasubbu (AIKS),Marimuthu(Town Secretary of DYFI)Vai.Balu(CITU), took the corpse in procession to the disputed burial ground.The RDO and Police denied permission to enter into the burial ground. The processionist with the corpse,however, managed to enter into the burial ground by breaking the fence and the stone pillars, dig the ground and buried the corpse despite the police snatched the crowbar and spades used for digging the burial ground. Thus the dead body was buried and a memorial stone was laid near the buried place. The police force was all of a sudden withdrawn from the scene.
After the burial was over, P.Esakkimuthu,K.S.Arjunan and K.P.Perumal addressed the gathering stressing the need to rally behind the TNUEF to protect the rights of the dalits.
It is thus again established that the abrogated burial ground can be restored with the unity and struggle of the dalit people under the banner of TNUEF despite fence, stonepillars and Police
The video clippings of the struggle can be seen below
P.Esakkimuthu,Dist.Convener,TNUEF,Tuticorin