Dharmapuri: Inter-caste marriage that sparked riots now in legal tangle

G Pramod Kumar • June 7, 2013, 10:59:39 IST

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The love-marriage of a caste-Hindu girl and a Dalit boy that led to the arson and violence against three Dalit villages in Dharmapuri, in which about 270 houses were gutted and 1500 people fled, appeared to be in trouble on Thursday.

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