A group of school children from the Dalit community in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu were restricted from walking through a mud lane by an upper caste elderly women, who hurled casties slurs at them.

The incident occurred in Kollangarai village on September 25. A video emerged on social media platform where she tries to block the school-going children with a long stick.

“Go back!” she shouts at them.

The children were accompanied by a young Dalit man, who gently pushes the old woman aside, despite her repeated efforts to stop them.

Chellakannu, state president of the Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF), condemned the incident, stating that the woman had used the casteist slur ‘ eliya saathi ’ while blocking the children’s passage. He clarified that the lane is a pu

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