Tension prevailed here on Friday after Dalits at Aadhagapatty in Pennagaram blocked a road carrying a body demanding pathway to a graveyard.The residents of Scheduled Castes colony that houses over 100 households took to the street carrying the corpse of a man, who died on Thursday. The local residents have been burying the dead on a piece of poramboke land. The Scheduled Castes have long been demanding that an exclusive graveyard be provided for them. Revenue officials held talks with the protesters. They promised to lay a pathway immediately, and another site for a graveyard too.
