Six employees with the office of Executive Engineer, (Buildings and Maintenance) here have been booked under various sections of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities), Act 1989 on charge of having harassed an assistant on caste lines.
Based on a complaint of Mariappan, 48, the superintendent of the office, Ilangovan, and other employees Kathiresan, Ganesh Muniyaraj, Rajesh, Muthu Murugananantham, and Dharmendra Yadav were booked for rioting, using abusive language and criminal intimidation.
Mr. Mariappan complained that Mr. Ilangovan had prevented him from using the tumbler in the office for drinking water from a container, using casteist slurs. The abuse, according to him, had been happening since 2018.
