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Court convicts former civic chief under SC/ST act, gets 7 years jail

Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, Jun 28 (UNI) A lower court here today convicted a former village Panchayat president under the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (prevention of atrocities) Act, 1989 and sentenced him to undergo seven years imprisonment for abusing a Dalit and assaulted him with a footwear in 2011.

According to the prosecution, V Palanisamy (56), who was then President of Pagaivendri village panchayat in this Southern district, abused the Dalit G Thirumurugan (34), by calling his caste name and assaulted him with footwear for seeking election as Vice President on October 29, 2011, when he visited the panchayat office.
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