A team from the National Commission for Scheduled Castes led by Chairman I Murugan will be visiting Nadur village in Coimbatore district on 5 December, in connection to the death of 17 Dalits, after a wall collapsed on their residences. The Commission's representative will visit the village at 12 pm and will be accompanied by top police officials from the District.
The visit comes after Lok Sabha MP and VCK leader D Ravikumar appealed to the Union Ministry of Social Justice to conduct an inquiry into the deaths. According to the VCK and caste activists, the wall which collapsed early morning on 2 December on three houses, reducing them to rubble, was a physical manifestation of the caste discrimination rampant in the state.