Disposing of the petition filed by one of the eight persons who did not take the DNA test in connection with the Vengaivayal incident, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the investigating officer to file a fresh application before the Pudukkottai Special Court.
Justice G. Ilangovan directed that based on the application made by the officer, the Special Court shall issue notice and hear all the parties concerned and then pass orders. The court was hearing the petition that challenged the Pudukkottai Special Court’s direction to the petitioner and others to undergo the DNA test.
The petitioner, K. Muthukrishnan, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste, said the Special Court for Exclusive Trial of Cases under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act issued an order to collect blood samples from 11 persons and conduct the DNA tests. A resident of Vengaivayal, the petitioner said that in December last year, human faeces were found mixed in water in an overhead tank that supplied potable water to the Scheduled Caste families. He also complained that there were other forms of discrimination being practised in the village.
