Frontline, April 11-24, 2009
Spreading menace
The system of dispensing ‘justice’ through kangaroo courts continues in rural and urban Tamil Nadu despite court directives to end the practice.
A. Manoharan and his wife, Vanitha, who, along with their two daughters, have been ostracised from their hamlet, Panaiyur Periakuppam in Kancheepuram district, by the “meenavar†panchayat, a kangaroo court, over a land dispute. The Madras High Court ordered police protection to the family, but they continue (...)