COIMBATORE: An autorickshaw driver has been booked under the Schedule Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for assaulting a woman corporation contract worker and using casteist slurs against her.
The Peelamedu police said the incident occurred when the corporation worker, 24-year-old Sowmya, wife of Giri, of Pattatharasi Amman Kovil Street at Avarampalayam, was on door-to-door Covid-19 survey on July 17.
“She was collecting details about Covid-19 symptoms from Suresh, owner of Sri Kanchana metal polishing firm, when auto river Sathish, of the same locality, entered into an argument with her over collecting the data and used castiest slurs against her,” a police officer said.
When she questioned Sathish, the officer said, he started to assault her with a chair. “He told her that he was a DMK functionary and threatened her not to leave the place till the evening. She called up her superiors and lodged a complaint with us.”
The Peelamedu police booked Sathish under sections 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3(1)(r)(s) and 3(2) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015. “Satheesh is on the run. We have formed a special team to nab him,” the officer said.
