The Ervadi police in Tirunelveli district have taken in for questioning a Class 9 student from a government-aided higher secondary school near Valliyoor for allegedly attacking a classmate with a machete following a quarrel over a minor issue.

The police said that on Wednesday (September 24, 2025), the victim, a teenage boy belonging to a Scheduled Caste community from Sankarankovil in Tenkasi district, who is an inmate of the school hostel, had allegedly made abusive remarks against the father of a classmate from an intermediate caste.

The two boys were pacified by other students and teachers. However, on Thursday, the boy from the intermediate caste reportedly brought a machete to school and attacked the SC boy inside the classroom, causing an injury to his back. He was rushed to a nea

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