Dalit boy thrashed by fuel station owner, three others in Dharmapuri district

DHARMAPURI: The A Pallipatty police in Dharmapuri district on Thursday registered a case against four men, including a fuel station owner, on charges of assaulting a dalit boy. The police began searches for the men who attacked the 17-year-old boy.

The boy had worked at the fuel station run by Ramakrishnan, 48. He left the job to assist his uncle. This angered Ramakrishnan.

On Tuesday night, Ramakrishnan and others allegedly tied the boy to a tree and beat him up, said a police officer at the A Pallipatty station. The boy was freed when his parents arrived there on Wednesday morning.

They took the boy to Dharmapuri Government Medical College and Hospital and filed a complaint at the A Pallipatty police station.

The police registered a case against the four men, including Ramakrishnan, under the Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act on Thursday.