Dominant community persons set up fence to hinder road access: SCs

Family of Arunthathiyar say ex-panchayat official of dominant community exacting revenge

- P SRINIVASAN @Tiruppur

Social activists have raised allegations that members of a dominant community have blocked an easement near the house of a family belonging to the Arunthathiyar community over a dispute, in a village near Dharapuram of Tiruppur district.

They further said that the person who erected the fence has not removed it despite the tahsildar's order.

Sources said that R Ayyanar, a wage labourer, of Mulaiyampoondi Colony in Karuppan Valasu village in Dharapuram, lives with his wife A Saroja, a farm labourer, and their two sons.

Ayyanar's house is located at the end of the street, and a concrete road leads from their house to the main road, adjacent to one M Saraswathi's house.