Tamil Nadu parents claim kids fell sick after taking food cooked by dalit

Coimbatore | Wednesday | 8th August, 2018

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“I myself had the same food prepared in the school. However, a heavy posse of police have been posted in the village anticipating protest by parents of the school children who have been demanding that the dalit cook to be transferred. During the inquiry the headmistress alleged that she found a lizard in the plate of a seventh standard student. An ambulance was summoned and 12 children – 11 girls and one boy – were taken to the Avinashi government hospital. I suspect that someone might have dropped a lizard in the food to frame me,’’ she said.“There were several attempts to send me away from this school..