Annur row: Police file case against man who recorded video

The video relates to an incident in which a Dalit village assistant was seen prostrating before a farmer, and a second clip that showed the VA assaulting the farmer

Annur police have registered a case against the man who recorded the video of an altercation between a Dalit village assistant (VA) and a dominant caste man at the Ottarpalayam village administrative office, which has been at the centre of a controversy for three weeks. On August 7, the VA, P. Muthusamy, who is from a Scheduled Caste, to K. Gopalsamy, a farmer, at the Ottarpalayam office on the previous day. Following this, the Annur police booked the latter based on a complaint from Ottarpalayam Village Adminstrative Officer V. Kalaiselvi, under sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Indian Penal Code.