The Kadamparai Adi Dravidar hostel houses more than 30 students between 7 to 15 years of age, many of whom have alleged that they were subjected to physical and sexual harassment by the hostel warden.
Ravi who hails from Chennai in Tamil Nadu, worked at Chennai’s Adyar Cancer Institute before moving to Silchar with his family in 2007 as a director of CCHRC.
Entire families from the Kuravan tribe routinely face arrest and torture for crimes they are unconnected to, revealing the police’s reluctance to shed their prejudice against what were earlier called ‘criminal tribes’.
Nine people were killed and five were injured after a fire broke out in a private coach of the Punalur-Madurai Express that had halted in Madurai on August 26.