Union Minister and BJP leader L. Murugan condemned the incident.
Chennai:
The discovery of human faeces in the lock of a school canteen has sparked outrage in Tamil Nadu.
Namakkal district police are investigating the incident following a complaint filed by the school principal on Tuesday. “The school authorities lodged a complaint only after washing the faeces,” said Superintendent of Police S Rajesh Kannan.
“We have some leads. We should be able to solve the case in a few days,” he added.
Union Minister and BJP leader L. Murugan condemned the incident and urged the Tamil Nadu government to take swift action against those responsible.
“This incident is as cruel as throwing faeces into a drinking water tank,” he said, referring to an incident in Vengaivayal in Pudukottai in 2022, where human faeces were found in a tank supplying water to an area where people from scheduled castes are in the majority.
Stressing that no formal charges have yet been filed in the 2022 case, Mr Murugan said: “There is a deliberate delay in many of these cases.”
The Madras High Court also recently pulled up the Criminal Investigation Department (CBCID) investigating the case for delay in arresting the culprits.
Citing a Right to Information (RTI) reply which reveals that the practice of untouchability is still prevalent in 445 villages across the state, the Union Minister claimed that the use of double vessels, the practice of having double graveyards and other such forms of discrimination continue under the DMK government.
The DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has not yet commented on the incident.
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