TRICHY: An exclusive safety refuge built for the good thing about inter-caste couples dealing with threats for marrying outside their castes will likely be inaugurated within the city on Sunday. The private refuge is established through a agree with voicing in opposition to caste-related violence across Tamil Nadu.
According to advocate Se Gunasekar, managing trustee of Adhalinaal Kadhal Seiveer (Therefore, fall in love), the agree with is engaged in supporting grownup inter-caste couples for the previous 10 years. The new refuge will function a protected haven for the ones at the run because of hostility from their households and fringe elements.
“Inter-caste couples in quest of safe haven usually get no protected shelters to stay. Even in police stations they cannot be accommodated for a long time. The government can emulate such shelters in other portions to prevent caste killings,” Gunasekar stated.
Established in an area of 345sqft space at an estimated price of Rs 10 lakh in Police Colony locality in Anna Nagar near Trichy, the agree with will accommodate couples in quest of felony and livelihood support.
“We have carried out for popularity from the district social welfare division. Authorities have given their moral support to our initiative. Legal support will likely be supplied for inter-caste couples approaching us,” Gunasekar informed reporters on Saturday.
Members of the agree with recalled a directive of the Madurai bench of Madras high court which ordered that district administrations form a different mobile for aiding inter-caste couples. They stated that such particular cells are established in handiest four districts together with Trichy.
Establishing such shelters would pave approach for the government to pitch in with a solution and display accountability in providing safety for inter-caste couples and to finish caste-based violence, they added.
According to advocate Se Gunasekar, managing trustee of Adhalinaal Kadhal Seiveer (Therefore, fall in love), the agree with is engaged in supporting grownup inter-caste couples for the previous 10 years. The new refuge will function a protected haven for the ones at the run because of hostility from their households and fringe elements.
“Inter-caste couples in quest of safe haven usually get no protected shelters to stay. Even in police stations they cannot be accommodated for a long time. The government can emulate such shelters in other portions to prevent caste killings,” Gunasekar stated.
Established in an area of 345sqft space at an estimated price of Rs 10 lakh in Police Colony locality in Anna Nagar near Trichy, the agree with will accommodate couples in quest of felony and livelihood support.
“We have carried out for popularity from the district social welfare division. Authorities have given their moral support to our initiative. Legal support will likely be supplied for inter-caste couples approaching us,” Gunasekar informed reporters on Saturday.
Members of the agree with recalled a directive of the Madurai bench of Madras high court which ordered that district administrations form a different mobile for aiding inter-caste couples. They stated that such particular cells are established in handiest four districts together with Trichy.
Establishing such shelters would pave approach for the government to pitch in with a solution and display accountability in providing safety for inter-caste couples and to finish caste-based violence, they added.
Shelter for inter-caste couples set up in Trichy
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