A shopkeeper was arrested for practising untouchability and refusing to sell snacks to Scheduled Caste children at Panjankulam under Karivalamvanthanallur police station limits in Tenkasi district.
A video that went viral on social media shows a group of schoolchildren coming to a shop in Panjankulam for buying snacks and candies. They are told by a person that no shop in the village will give them snacks or anything. He instructs the confused children to tell their family members that the shops will not sell them anything based on a “decision” taken by the elders of an intermediate caste.
When one of the children innocently asks about the “decision”, the person says the village elders have decided not to sell anything to Scheduled Caste families. After standing helplessly for a few seconds, the children leave the spot.
