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தமிழக அரசு ஈமெயில் திட்டம்

தமிழக அரசு சார்பில் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்ட M.L.A-கள் பலர் பொது மக்கள் தரும் மனுவை / கோரிக்கையை படிப்பதில்லை. அப்படியே அதனை தந்தாலும் அவரது சாகாக்கள் அதனை அவருடன் கொண்டு சேர்ப்பதில்லை. இதனால் பொது மக்களிடம் ஒரு தவறான கருத்து உருவாகிறது. அதனை கருத்தில் கொண்டு, தமிழக அரசு ஈமெயில் திட்டத்தை அறிமுகம் செய்துள்ளது.

முதலமைச்சர் ஜெயலலிதா தலைமைச் செயலகத்தில் இந்த திட்டத்தை துவக்கி வைத்து ஒவ்வொரு தொகுதி M.L.A.க்கும் ஒரு E-Mail ID கொடுத்துள்ளார். இனிமேல் உங்கள் “நியாயமான” கோரிக்கைகளை நீங்கள் அனுப்பலாம்.

எல்லா M.L.A.க்கும் லேப்டாப் (Laptop) கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதனால் உங்கள் கோரிக்கைகளுக்கு கண்டிப்பாக பதில் கிடைக்கும் என நம்புவோம்.

234 தொகுதி M.L.A.க்கும் தனி தனியே கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது…..

தொகுதி பெயர் – M.L.A ஈமெயில் ID

1 Acharapakkam – mlaacharapakkam@tn.gov.in
2 Alandur – mlaalandur@tn.gov.in
3 Alangudi – mlaalangudi@tn.gov.in
4 Alangulam – mlaalangulam@tn.gov.in
5 Ambasamudram — mlaambasamudram@tn.gov.in
6 Anaicut — mlaanaicut@tn.gov.in
7 Andhiyur –mlaandhiyur@tn.gov.in
8 Andimadam – mlaandimadam@tn.gov.in
9 Andipatti – mlaandipatti@tn.gov.in
10 AnnaNagar – mlaannanagar@tn.gov.in
11 Arakkonam – mlaarakkonam@tn.gov.in
12 Arantangi– mlaarantangi@tn.gov.in
13 Aravakurichi – mlaaravakurichi@tn.gov.in
14 Arcot – mlaarcot@tn.gov.in
15 Ariyalur –mlaariyalur@tn.gov.in
16 Arni — mlaarni@tn.gov.in
17 Aruppukottai – mlaaruppukottai@tn.gov.in
18 Athoor – mlaathoor@tn.gov.in
19 Attur – mlaattur@tn.gov.in
20 Avanashi – mlaavanashi@tn.gov.in
21 Bargur – mlabargur@tn.gov.in
22 Bhavani – mlabhavani@tn.gov.in
23 Bhavanisagar – mlabhavanisagar@tn.gov.in
24 Bhuvanagiri – mlabhuvanagiri@tn.gov.in
25 Bodinayakkanur – mlabodinayakkanur@tn.gov.in

26 Chengalpattu – mlachengalpattu@tn.gov.in
27 Chengam – mlachengam@tn.gov.in
28 Chepauk – mlachepauk@tn.gov.in
29 Cheranmahadevi – mlacheranmahadevi@tn.gov.in
30 Cheyyar – mlacheyyar@tn.gov.in
31 Chidambaram – mlachidambaram@tn.gov.in
32 Chinnasalem – mlachinnasalem@tn.gov.in
33 CoimbatoreEast – mlacoimbatoreeast@tn.gov.in
34 CoimbatoreWest – mlacoimbatorewest@tn.gov.in
35 Colachel – mlacolachel@tn.gov.in
36 Coonoor – mlacoonoor@tn.gov.in
37 Cuddalore – mlacuddalore@tn.gov.in
38 Cumbum – mlacumbum@tn.gov.in
39 Dharapuram – mladharapuram@tn.gov.in
40 Dharmapuri – mladharmapuri@tn.gov.in
41 Dindigul – mladindigul@tn.gov.in
42 Edapadi – mlaedapadi@tn.gov.in
43 Egmore – mlaegmore@tn.gov.in
44 Erode – mlaerode@tn.gov.in
45 Gingee – mlagingee@tn.gov.in
46 Gobichettipalayam – mlagobichettipalayam@tn.gov.in
47 Gudalur – mlagudalur@tn.gov.in
48 Gudiyatham – mlagudiyatham@tn.gov.in
49 Gummidipundi – mlagummidipundi@tn.gov.in
50 Harbour – mlaharbour@tn.gov.in

51 Harur – mlaharur@tn.gov.in
52 Hosur – mlahosur@tn.gov.in
53 Ilayangudi – mlailayangudi@tn.gov.in
54 Jayankondam – mlajayankondam@tn.gov.in
55 Kadaladi – mlakadaladi@tn.gov.in
56 Kadayanallur – mlakadayanallur@tn.gov.in
57 Kalasapakkam – mlakalasapakkam@tn.gov.in
58 Kancheepuram – mlakancheepuram@tn.gov.in
59 Kandamangalam – mlakandamangalam@tn.gov.in
60 Kangayam – mlakangayam@tn.gov.in
61 Kanniyakumari – mlakanniyakumari@tn.gov.in
62 Kapilamalai – mlakapilamalai@tn.gov.in
63 Karaikudi – mlakaraikudi@tn.gov.in
64 Karur – mlakarur@tn.gov.in
65 Katpadi – mlakatpadi@tn.gov.in
66 Kattumannarkoil – mlakattumannarkoil@tn.gov.in
67 Kaveripattinam – mlakaveripattinam@tn.gov.in
68 Killiyoor – mlakilliyoor@tn.gov.in
69 Kinathukadavu – mlakinathukadavu@tn.gov.in
70 Kolathur – mlakolathur@tn.gov.in
71 Kovilpatti – mlakovilpatti@tn.gov.in
72 Krishnagiri – mlakrishnagiri@tn.gov.in
73 Krishnarayapuram – mlakrishnarayapuram@tn.gov.in
74 Kulithalai – mlakulithalai@tn.gov.in
75 Kumbakonam – mlakumbakonam@tn.gov.in

76 Kurinjipadi – mlakurinjipadi@tn.gov.in
77 Kuttalam – mlakuttalam@tn.gov.in
78 Lalgudi – mlalalgudi@tn.gov.in
79 MaduraiCentral – mlamaduraicentral@tn.gov.in
80 MaduraiEast – mlamaduraieast@tn.gov.in
81 MaduraiWest – mlamaduraiwest@tn.gov.in
82 Maduranthakam – mlamaduranthakam@tn.gov.in
83 Manamadurai – mlamanamadurai@tn.gov.in
84 Mangalore – mlamangalore@tn.gov.in
85 Mannargudi – mlamannargudi@tn.gov.in
86 Marungapuri – mlamarungapuri@tn.gov.in
87 Mayiladuturai – mlamayiladuturai@tn.gov.in
88 Melmalaiyanur – mlamelmalaiyanur@tn.gov.in
89 Melur – mlamelur@tn.gov.in
90 Mettupalayam – mlamettupalayam@tn.gov.in
91 Mettur – mlamettur@tn.gov.in
92 Modakkurichi – mlamodakkurichi@tn.gov.in
93 Morappur – mlamorappur@tn.gov.in
94 Mudukulathur – mlamudukulathur@tn.gov.in
95 Mugaiyur – mlamugaiyur@tn.gov.in
96 Musiri – mlamusiri@tn.gov.in
97 Mylapore – mlamylapore@tn.gov.in
98 Nagapattinam – mlanagapattinam@tn.gov.in
99 Nagercoil – mlanagercoil@tn.gov.in
100 Namakkal – mlanamakkal@tn.gov.in

101 Nanguneri – mlananguneri@tn.gov.in
102 Nannilam – mlanannilam@tn.gov.in
103 Natham – mlanatham@tn.gov.in
104 Natrampalli – mlanatrampalli@tn.gov.in
105 Nellikkuppam – mlanellikkuppam@tn.gov.in
106 Nilakottai – mlanilakottai@tn.gov.in
107 Oddanchatram – mlaoddanchatram@tn.gov.in
108 Omalur – mlaomalur@tn.gov.in
109 Orathanad – mlaorathanad@tn.gov.in
110 Ottapidaram – mlaottapidaram@tn.gov.in
111 Padmanabhapuram – mlapadmanabhapuram@tn.gov.in
112 Palacode – mlapalacode@tn.gov.in
113 Palani – mlapalani@tn.gov.in
114 Palayamkottai – mlapalayamkottai@tn.gov.in
115 Palladam – mlapalladam@tn.gov.in
116 Pallipattu – mlapallipattu@tn.gov.in
117 Panamarathupatti – mlapanamarathupatti@tn.gov.in
118 Panruti – mlapanruti@tn.gov.in
119 Papanasam – mlapapanasam@tn.gov.in
120 Paramakudi – mlaparamakudi@tn.gov.in
121 ParkTown – mlaparktown@tn.gov.in
122 Pattukkottai – mlapattukkottai@tn.gov.in
123 Pennagaram – mlapennagaram@tn.gov.in
124 Perambalur – mlaperambalur@tn.gov.in
125 Perambur – mlaperambur@tn.gov.in

126 Peranamallur – mlaperanamallur@tn.gov.in
127 Peravurani – mlaperavurani@tn.gov.in
128 Periyakulam – mlaperiyakulam@tn.gov.in
129 Pernambut – mlapernambut@tn.gov.in
130 Perundurai – mlaperundurai@tn.gov.in
131 Perur – mlaperur@tn.gov.in
132 Pollachi – mlapollachi@tn.gov.in
133 Polur – mlapolur@tn.gov.in
134 Pongalur – mlapongalur@tn.gov.in
135 Ponneri – mlaponneri@tn.gov.in
136 Poompuhar – mlapoompuhar@tn.gov.in
137 Poonamallee – mlapoonamallee@tn.gov.in
138 Pudukkottai – mlapudukkottai@tn.gov.in
139 Purasawalkam – mlapurasawalkam@tn.gov.in
140 Radhapuram – mlaradhapuram@tn.gov.in
141 Rajapalayam – mlarajapalayam@tn.gov.in
142 Ramanathapuram – mlaramanathapuram@tn.gov.in
143 Ranipet – mlaranipet@tn.gov.in
144 Rasipuram – mlarasipuram@tn.gov.in
145 Rishivandiyam – mlarishivandiyam@tn.gov.in
146 Dr.RadhakrishnanNagar – mlarknagar@tn.gov.in
147 Royapuram – mlaroyapuram@tn.gov.in
148 Saidapet – mlasaidapet@tn.gov.in
149 Salem -I – mlasalem1@tn.gov.in
150 Salem-II – mlasalem2@tn.gov.in

151 Samayanallur – mlasamayanallur@tn.gov.in
152 Sankaranayanarkoi – mlasankaranayanarkoil@tn.gov.in
153 Sankarapuram – mlasankarapuram@tn.gov.in
154 Sankari – mlasankari@tn.gov.in
155 Sathyamangalam – mlasathyamangalam@tn.gov.in
156 Sattangulam – mlasattangulam@tn.gov.in
157 Sattur – mlasattur@tn.gov.in
158 Sedapatti – mlasedapatti@tn.gov.in
159 Sendamangalam – mlasendamangalam@tn.gov.in
160 Sholavandan – mlasholavandan@tn.gov.in
161 Sholinghur – mlasholinghur@tn.gov.in
162 Singanallur – mlasinganallur@tn.gov.in
163 Sirkazhi – mlasirkazhi@tn.gov.in
164 Sivaganga – mlasivaganga@tn.gov.in
165 Sivakasi – mlasivakasi@tn.gov.in
166 Sriperumbudur – mlasriperumbudur@tn.gov.in
167 Srirangam – mlasrirangam@tn.gov.in
168 Srivaikuntam – mlasrivaikuntam@tn.gov.in
169 Srivilliputhur – mlasrivilliputhur@tn.gov.in
170 Talavasal – mlatalavasal@tn.gov.in
171 Tambaram – mlatambaram@tn.gov.in
172 Taramangalam – mlataramangalam@tn.gov.in
173 Tenkasi – mlatenkasi@tn.gov.in
174 Thalli – mlathalli@tn.gov.in
175 Thandarambattu – mlathandarambattu@tn.gov.in

176 Thanjavur – mlathanjavur@tn.gov.in
177 Theni – mlatheni@tn.gov.in
178 Thirumangalam – mlathirumangalam@tn.gov.in
179 Thirumayam – mlathirumayam@tn.gov.in
180 Thirupparankundram – mlathirupparankundram@tn.gov.in
181 Thiruvattar – mlathiruvattar@tn.gov.in
182 Thiruverambur – mlathiruverambur@tn.gov.in
183 Thiruvidamarudur – mlathiruvidamarudur@tn.gov.in
184 Thiruvonam – mlathiruvonam@tn.gov.in
185 Thiruvottiyur – mlathiruvottiyur@tn.gov.in
186 Thondamuthur – mlathondamuthur@tn.gov.in
187 Thottiam – mlathottiam@tn.gov.in
188 Tindivanam – mlatindivanam@tn.gov.in
189 Tiruchendur – mlatiruchendur@tn.gov.in
190 Tiruchengode – mlatiruchengode@tn.gov.in
191 Tirunavalur – mlatirunavalur@tn.gov.in
192 Tirunelveli – mlatirunelveli@tn.gov.in
193 Tiruppattur-194 – mlatiruppattur194@tn.gov.in
194 Tiruppattur-41 – mlatiruppattur41@tn.gov.in
195 Tirupporur – mlatirupporur@tn.gov.in
196 Tiruppur – mlatiruppur@tn.gov.in
197 Tiruthuraipundi – mlatiruthuraipundi@tn.gov.in
198 Tiruttani – mlatiruttani@tn.gov.in
199 Tiruvadanai – mlatiruvadanai@tn.gov.in
200 Tiruvaiyaru – mlatiruvaiyaru@tn.gov.in

201 Tiruvallur – mlatiruvallur@tn.gov.in
202 Tiruvannamalai – mlatiruvannamalai@tn.gov.in
203 Tiruvarur – mlatiruvarur@tn.gov.in
204 TheagarayaNagar – mlatnagar@tn.gov.in
205 Tiruchirapalli-I – mlatrichy1@tn.gov.in
206 Tiruchirapalli-II – mlatrichy2@tn.gov.in
207 Triplicane – mlatriplicane@tn.gov.in
208 Tuticorin – mlatuticorin@tn.gov.in
209 Udagamandalam – mlaudagamandalam@tn.gov.in
210 Udumalpet – mlaudumalpet@tn.gov.in
211 Ulundurpet – mlaulundurpet@tn.gov.in
212 Uppiliyapuram – mlauppiliyapuram@tn.gov.in
213 Usilampatti – mlausilampatti@tn.gov.in
214 Uthiramerur – mlauthiramerur@tn.gov.in
215 Valangiman – mlavalangiman@tn.gov.in
216 Valparai – mlavalparai@tn.gov.in
217 Vandavasi – mlavandavasi@tn.gov.in
218 Vaniyambadi – mlavaniyambadi@tn.gov.in
219 Vanur – mlavanur@tn.gov.in
220 Varahur – mlavarahur@tn.gov.in
221 Vasudevanallur – mlavasudevanallur@tn.gov.in
222 Vedaranyam – mlavedaranyam@tn.gov.in
223 Vedasandur – mlavedasandur@tn.gov.in
224 Veerapandi – mlaveerapandi@tn.gov.in
225 Vellakoil – mlavellakoil@tn.gov.in

226 Vellore – mlavellore@tn.gov.in
227 Vilathikulam – mlavilathikulam@tn.gov.in
228 Vilavancode – mlavilavancode@tn.gov.in
229 Villivakkam – mlavillivakkam@tn.gov.in
230 Villupuram – mlavillupuram@tn.gov.in
231 Virudhunagar – mlavirudhunagar@tn.gov.in
232 Vridhachalam – mlavridhachalam@tn.gov.in
233 Yercaud – mlayercaud@tn.gov.in
234 ThousandLights – mlathousandlights@tn.gov.in

உங்கள் கோரிக்கையை ஈமெயில் மூலம் நேரிடையா M.L.A.வுக்கு அனுப்புங்க…!!!

நல்ல தீர்வு கிடைக்கும் என்ற நம்பிக்கையில் …!!!!

இந்த திட்டம் வெற்றிப்பெற வாழ்த்துக்கள் !

நீங்கள் வாங்கும் பொருள் எந்த நாட்டுடையது என்பதை பார் கோட் மூலம் அறிந்து கொள்வது எப்படி

சீனாவில் தயாரிக்கப்பட்ட பொருட்கள் என்றால் இப்பொழுது இந்தியா மட்டும் இல்ல, உலகமே சந்தேகம் கண் கொண்டு பாக்க ஆரம்பிச்சுருச்சு …பால் பவுடர் பிரச்சனை,சீன பொம்மைகள் என்று எல்லாத்துலயும் நச்சு பொருட்கள் இருபதாக சொல்ல படுகிறது,சிலர் சீன பொருட்கள் விலை குறைவாக கிடைகிறது என்று தேடி போய் சீன பொருட்களை வாங்குவார்கள் அவர்களுக்கும் இந்த தகவல் பயனுள்ளதாக இருக்கும்.(தவிர்பதற்கும் சரி வாங்குவதற்கும் சரி ),சரி நம்ம எப்படி சீன,தைவான் பொருட்களை தான் நாம வாங்குகிறோமா என்று சரி பார்ப்பது……இப்பொழுது எல்லா பொருட்களுக்கும் பார்கோடு பயன்பாட்டில் உள்ளது என்று உங்களுக்கு தெரியும்,பார் கோடு
என்பது machine readble format யில் இருக்கும்.அதில் முதல் மூன்று எண்கள் 690.691,692 என்றால் அது சீனாவில் தயாரிக்கப்பட்ட பொருள் என்று அர்த்தம் ,471 என்றால் தைவானில் தயாரிக்கப்பட்ட பொருள் ஆகும்.

நீங்கள் வாங்கும் பொருள் எந்த நாட்டிலிருந்து வருகிறது என்று இதனை வைத்து தெரிந்து கொள்ளலாம்.போலி மருந்துகள் மாதிரி expiry date யை,இதனை அச்சடிக்க முடியாது என்பதும் நமக்கு கொஞ்சம் ஆறுதல் அளிக்கிறது.இனிமேல் பார்கோடை பார்த்து வாங்குங்க .

மற்ற நாடுகளின் முதல் எண்கள்
00-13: USA & Canada
20-29: In-Store Functions
30-37: France
40-44: Germany
45: Japan (also 49)
46: Russian Federation
471: Taiwan
474: Estonia
475: Latvia
477: Lithuania
479: Sri Lanka
480: Philippines
482: Ukraine
484: Moldova
485: Armenia
486: Georgia
487: Kazakhstan
489: Hong Kong
49: Japan (JAN-13)
50: United Kingdom
520: Greece
528: Lebanon
529: Cyprus
531: Macedonia
535: Malta
539: Ireland
54: Belgium & Luxembourg
560: Portugal
569: Iceland
57: Denmark
590: Poland
594: Romania
599: Hungary
600 & 601: South Africa
609: Mauritius
611: Morocco
613: Algeria
619: Tunisia
622: Egypt
625: Jordan
626: Iran
64: Finland
690-692: China
70: Norway
729: Israel
73: Sweden
740: Guatemala
741: El Salvador
742: Honduras
743: Nicaragua
744: Costa Rica
746: Dominican Republic
750: Mexico
759: Venezuela
76: Switzerland
770: Colombia
773: Uruguay
775: Peru
777: Bolivia
779: Argentina
780: Chile
784: Paraguay
785: Peru
786: Ecuador
789: Brazil
80 – 83: Italy
84: Spain
850: Cuba
858: Slovakia
859: Czech Republic
860: Yugoslavia
869: Turkey
87: Netherlands
880: South Korea
885: Thailand
888: Singapore
890: India
893: Vietnam
899: Indonesia
90 & 91: Austria
93: Australia
94: New Zealand
955: Malaysia
977: International Standard Serial Number for Periodicals (ISSN)
978: International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN)
979: International Standard Music Number (ISMN)
980: Refund receipts
981 & 982: Common Currency Coupons
99: Coupons

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S. DORAIRAJ
in T. Mandapam

A VIEW OF Irular huts at T. Mandapam village in Villupuram district.

A PAIR of huts perched high on a rock surrounded by gigantic boulders, bottlegourd creepers crowning their roofs thatched with palm leaves, a pool of crystal clear water on the rocky terrain, a partly dilapidated but majestic stone-pillared mantap standing close by, and a temple in the vicinity housing idols of Madurai Veeran and a few other folk deities. The secluded place in T. Mandapam village on the banks of the legendary river Pennai in Tirukkoilur taluk of Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu has an incredible beauty.

Strangers to this remote place will find it hard to believe that beneath its picturesque appearance and serenity lies a story of police brutality unleashed against four young women of the Irular Scheduled Tribe and their hapless kin who have been living there for several years. Two sisters and the wives of two of their brothers told Frontline that they were forcibly taken away from their home in a van and subjected to sexual assault including rape by policemen on the night of November 22. Their mother and older male members of the family were away at the local police station, where they had been asked to report. Six of their relatives were subsequently detained in prison in connection with a case foisted on them by the policemen, they said.

The incident, which has sent shock waves across the State, comes within two months of the landmark judgment in the 19-year-old “Vachathi case”, in which all the 269 accused, including personnel of the Forest, Police and Revenue Departments of the Tamil Nadu government were convicted of rape, torture, destruction of evidence and wrongful confinement (“Justice for Vachathi”, Frontline, November 4). The atrocities were committed against the Malayalee tribes of Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district in June 1992. The incident also reminded the State of the gang rape, allegedly perpetrated by policemen, of a 17-year-old Irular girl at Athiyur village in Villupuram district in 1993.

As news of the T. Mandapam incident emerged three days after it happened, thanks to the intervention of the Pazhangudi Irular Pathukaappu Sangam (PIPS, or Association for the Protection of the Irular Tribe), demands for action against the guilty policemen and rehabilitation of the victims were raised by some political parties, tribal people’s associations and human rights organisations. Protest demonstrations were held in different parts of the State.

One of the victims lodged a police complaint on November 26. The police registered cases under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 363 (kidnapping) and 427 (causing damage to currency notes) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 376 (rape) of the IPC read with Section 3(1) (xii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against “certain unidentified policemen”. Under the High Court’s direction, the victims underwent tests at the government medical college hospital in Villupuram.

A public interest petition was filed in the Madras High Court on November 28, seeking a direction to the State government to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) since the State government “is indifferent to the sensibilities of Scheduled Tribes”. The petition, filed by P. Pugalenthi, director of the Chennai-based Prisoners’ Rights Forum, sought the court’s direction for criminal proceedings against the erring police personnel. “The very arrest of the women after sunset would amount to a gross misconduct on the part of the police personnel,” the petition said, pleading for an interim direction to the government to suspend all the guilty policemen immediately. As the rape victims were members of a Scheduled Tribe, the crime attracts Sections 3(1) (xii) and (2) (vii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, it said.

During the hearing on the petition, the Public Prosecutor pleaded that unless the charges could be proved during the investigation and a charge sheet was filed, the guilty policemen could not be arrested. In response, the First Bench of the High Court, which is hearing the case, observed on December 7: “We fail to understand the submission…. If a lady goes to a police station complaining about sexual harassment or rape by any named person, the police officer will not hesitate to arrest the person immediately. If that be so, why should law made applicable to the common man not be applied to the police officers?”

The court also said: “Needless to say that the payment of compensation will not restore the chastity of the women, who have been allegedly raped. The state has to take action in accordance with law against those persons, who have allegedly committed rape on those lady victims.”

Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa announced on November 29 that she had ordered the suspension of five policemen: Inspector Srinivasan, Special Sub Inspector Ramanathan, head constable Dhanasekar and constables Karthikeyan and Baktavatsalam. Preliminary investigations revealed that the policemen had detained some Irular women in a vehicle during night time, she said. Pointing out that a probe by the Tirukkoilur judicial magistrate was under way, she made it clear that stern action would be taken against the police personnel if they were found guilty. She also announced a solatium of Rs.5 lakh each to the victims from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund.

Night of terror

The victims shuddered to recall the incidents of the “black Tuesday”. Enquiries revealed that the two sisters who were raped lived with their parents and three of their brothers in one of the two huts on a rock around 1.5 km from T. Mandapam village. The family eked out a living by collecting sand from the streets where goldsmiths work and retrieving gold fragments by running the sand through a sieve. When the incident occurred, two other sons of the family, who usually worked at brick kilns at Ulundurpet in Villupuram district and Panapakkam on the outskirts of Chennai, were visiting with their wives, one of whom was pregnant. They were there because work at the kilns was suspended because of the monsoon. Two other male relatives were also staying with them.

PRABHA KALVIMANI, COORDINATOR of Pazhangudi Irular Pathukaappu Sangam.

According to the complaint, around 3 p.m. on November 22, three policemen came to the hut and took away one of the visiting brothers in connection with a theft. They told the women that his father should come to the police station when he returned from work. Accordingly, the detained man’s parents and elder brother went to the police station with two other relatives that evening, leaving only women and young boys at home. After they were gone, eight policemen ransacked the house around 8 p.m. and allegedly helped themselves to the family’s savings. Four of them then packed the two girls and the two daughters-in-law of the family in a van along with three younger sons and two relatives and drove away. The other four policemen stayed back. The girls were taken to a eucalyptus grove far away from the village.

When their parents and other relatives came back home from the police station, the waiting policemen pounced on them and thrashed them with sticks before taking them to the Tirukkoilur police station, where the men were detained. The only woman in the group, the accused person’s mother, was driven away in the van to Sandaipet, close to Tirukkoilur town. Shortly afterwards, her two daughters and daughters-in-law, who had been “arrested” from their home, were brought to Sandaipet. Accompanied by four policemen, they were asked to join their mother and taken again to the eucalyptus grove, one of the victims later alleged in her complaint.

According to the complaint, the policemen asked the girls to get down and led them to the grove past midnight. The girls were taken to separate places and raped. One of the victims was pregnant. She said she was molested, while the others were gagged and raped, one of them by three policemen. The girls were kept in “custody” for the rest of the night. Around 5 a.m., the policemen dropped them at the village. Around noon a police team allegedly came back to their hut and smashed utensils.

With a local lawyer playing the Good Samaritan, the four young women and their mother were able to contact some activists of the PIPS in Villupuram, who helped them to lodge the complaint on November 26, one of the victims said. Meanwhile, the victims’ father and five others were arrested in “theft cases” and lodged in the central prison in Cuddalore. Among them were the two sons who had come visiting. All the victims said they would be able to identify the men who assaulted them.

Background

Irulars, one of the six primitive tribes, form a tiny minority in Tamil Nadu, numbering about 100,000 in a population of 7.21 crore. The literacy rate among Irulars is around 34 per cent against the State’s literacy rate of 80.33 per cent. The British ethnographer Edgar Thurston’s historic work Castes and Tribes of Southern India, published in 1909, says that the Irulars of composite South Arcot, comprising Villupuram and Cuddalore districts, “are chiefly found about the Gingee hills, talk a corrupt Tamil, are very dark skinned, have very curly hair, never shave their heads, and never wear turbans or sandals. They dwell in scattered huts – never more than two or three in one place – which are little, round, thatched hovels with a low doorway through which one can just crawl, built among the fields…. They are perhaps the poorest and most miserable community in the district. Only one or two of them own any land, and that is only dry land….” A century later, not much has changed for them. The coordinator of PIPS, Prabha Kalvimani, also known as P. Kalyani, said around 60 per cent of the Irulars in the northern districts led a semi-nomadic life and worked in brick kilns and rice mills as bonded labourers as they found it difficult to repay the loans taken from the owners. Some of them work as cane cutters.

Irular people getting slapped with theft cases has been a regular feature for several years, he said, adding that the issue hit the headlines in 1993 after ‘Athiyur’ Vijaya was gang-raped after her father, P. Masi, was arrested. The case generated an awareness among the Irulars that they needed to rally under the banner of an association to defend their rights. However, Irulars continued to be booked in theft cases, tortured by the police, and sent to jail. They were booked under Sections 379 (theft) of the IPC on charges relating to theft of copper power cables and pumpsets belonging to farmers, and breaking of temple hundis, Prabha Kalvimani said.

JOTHI RAMALINGAM 

KUTTI REVATHI, POET and film-maker. She is currently working on a documentary, “We are Irulars”.

Irulars in the northern districts have repeatedly held demonstrations and petitioned officials such as the Home Secretary, the Director General of Police and District Collectors to seek redress. This year, between August 22 and September 10, three cases of police torture were reported in Tirukkovilur, Sithalingamadam and Moolasamudram in Villupuram, Kalyani alleged.

Poet and documentary film-maker Kutti Revathi said Irulars were frequently targeted by the police as they had no one to speak for them. She said her current project, a social documentary titled “We are Irulars”, aimed at highlighting two important issues: non-issuance of community certificates to Irular students, which was an obstacle in the path of their educational pursuit and employment, and the prevalence of large-scale bonded labour in rice mills and brick kilns.

Drastic changes in their living conditions occurred after the enactment of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Irulars, living on the dry plains, had an amazing snake-catching skill. Over generations, they had developed a traditional knowledge system of ethno-medicine as they were badly in need of it while dealing with poisonous reptiles. At one stage, they were exploited by some Western traders, who purchased snake skins. Earlier, they were treated as friends of farmers as they used snakes to catch farm rats to prevent crop loss. Over the past four decades, however, there was a process of alienation as Irulars started losing their livelihoods and became labourers or manual workers, Kutti Revathi said. As bonded labourers, they faced varied forms of torture and humiliation, including sexual, physical and psychological abuse at their workplaces.

The vast majority of the tribe gave up snake-catching long ago. However, the possession of snake-catching sticks and pots used for trapping farm rats are necessary preconditions for the acquisition of community certificates. Attempts by activists and experts to form cooperatives for Irulars, through which snake venom could be extracted even while preserving the reptiles, did not take off, she pointed out. Kutti Revathi, who had captured on camera one of the two Irular festivals, Iruli Kumbam, said even while fighting for their constitutional rights, efforts must be made to preserve their cultural traits.

P. Shanmugam, president of the Tamil Nadu Tribals Association, N. Nanjappan, president of the Tamil Nadu Tribal People’s Association, and Kalyani have accused the police of attempting to hush up the case. Demanding action under the S.Cs and S.Ts (PA) Act, they have criticised the police for allegedly detaining the victims at the office of the Superintendent of Police for over 18 hours. Nanjappan and Kalyani have demanded a probe by the CBI and early identification parade, while Shanmugam has said that the case should be handed over to the Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department of the State Police.