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The school has 47 students.On Thursday, 40 parents along with outsiders picketed the school objecting to the appointment of the dalit woman as school cook, said A Vasant, district secretary of the VCK, who along with party workers staged a road roko in support of the victim on Friday. After receiving a complaint from the victim, they booked a case against six people. COIMBATORE:Two months after a dalit cook faced discrimination after she was appointed to a noon meal centre attached to the Government High School at Thirumalaigoundanpalayam in Tirupur district, a similar case has come up at a government elementary school at Kuppankottai on the outskirts of Salem. The parents demanded that the headmaster either transfer the cook or give a Transfer Certificate (TC) to their students, he said.During the initial investigation, it was revealed that it was the headmaster who had instigated the parents to object to her appointment, said an official from the police department. The Salem district police have arrested three people for opposing her appointment.While the Deevattipatty police managed to arrest M Devan, 55, P Chinnatambi, 56, and G Mahendran, 38, all residents of K Morur on Saturday, three more people – headmaster of the school C Ammasi, 50, P Sekar, 35, and C Venkatesh, 38, residents of K Morur – are absconding.The victim S Jothi, 47, who had been working as an assistant to the cook at the Government High School at K Morur, was promoted as cook and transferred to the Kuppankottai Elementary School on Monday a few days earlier..