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Thirumavalavan, leader, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), who took part in a hunger strike organised by the party in Tirunelveli on Saturday to stress the need for providing victim compensation under SC/ ST Act without delay, said. Many were of the view that the SC / ST Act was misused to target somebody wrongfully, but it was not so. On the Cauvery water issue, he said the Centre had done injustice to Tamil Nadu by seeking more time before the Supreme Court to constitute Cauvery Management Board. more-inThoothukudiOver the last few years, caste-based clashes in Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts resulted in murders and accused were not arrested, Thol. Twenty families of victims were yet to get compensation from the government..