The Ijoor police are on the lookout for a priest and his sister for allegedly humiliating and abusing a 13-year-old girl from the Schedule Caste with a racist slur when she went to fetch water from a public tap near a temple. The accused had allegedly assaulted the uncle of the girl and his friend when they confronted the priest.
On October 9, the girl, Bhavana, went to get a pot of drinking water from a public tap situated in the premises of Maramma temple in Channamanahalli village of Ramanagara district in Karnataka.
The accused, Kumar Kenchappa, and his sister Yashodha, allegedly objected to the girl entering the temple premises and claimed that she had desecrated the place. They abused her with a racist slur and warned her to stay away from the temple before snatching and throwing the pot she was carrying, said the police.
