Villupuram Police hunt for people who chopped Dalit youth’s limbs
It is believed that girls maternal uncle and his associates attacked youth
Chennai: The Villupuram police have launched a manhunt for suspects who had allegedly cut off a hand and leg of a 28-year-old Dalit youth in April this year after he reportedly expressed his love for a caste Hindu schoolgirl.
The youth identified as Senthil, a driver, has lodged a complaint with the Villupuram police on Friday. Senthil told the police that relatives of the girl, who stopped talking to him when her family scolded her against the affair, had attacked him and chopped off his right hand and right leg on April 16.
Before that incident, police had arrested him on an eve-teasing complaint lodged by the girl.“He was earlier driving a private mini bus in Villupuram in which the girl, a class 10 student, used to travel. The two became friendly but the girl stopped talking to him. He was arrested after the girl lodged a complaint. After his arrest the bus owner sacked him and he started driving a lorry,” the police said.
Later when the girl’s family spotted him as a passenger in the same bus in which the girl was traveling they thought he was stalking her. It is believed that the girl’s maternal uncle and his associates had attacked Senthil and chopped off his limbs.