Black flags were put up in Vengaivayal as a mark of protest
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A majority of the residents of Vengaivayal, a Scheduled Caste hamlet in Pudukkottai district, boycotted the election on Thursday, alleging that their community members had falsely been implicated in the 2022 incident in which human faeces were found in an overhead drinking water tank. Only eight of the 69 residents cast their votes.

Black flags were hoisted across the village. The residents reiterated their demand for action against “real culprits”. They maintained that the CB-CID, which probed the case, had wrongly named residents of the hamlet as the accused.

Published – April 23, 2026 12:25 pm IST