The police officer also wrote to the school education department seeking appropriate action against the two senior community leaders presently posted as a principal and a senior teacher in different schools citing that their behaviour is akin to serious social crime and against the Chhattisgarh Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1965.The police officer married Amisha Singh, who is from north Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja district. “The boycott apparently has more to do with the animosity between the communities living in two different regions rather than the caste. We both are from the same tribal community then where does such an issue of inter-caste marriage arise?” said DSP Singh.The family of the officer’s wife stated that they never had any problem with the marriage and were taken aback with the social boycott decree imposed on the police officer by his community.Rationalists cited that the DySP being an adult is well within his right to marry the woman. “Such imposed exclusion from society or community on trivial reasons causes deeper and invisible pain. But sadly there is no effective law to combat the ever increasing menace. Over 25000 individuals or families are bearing the brunt of social boycott in Chhattisgarh alone,” said Dr Dinesh Mishra, Raipur-based ophthalmologist and recipient of the union government’s national award for promoting scientific temper.Officials told TNIE that there are already provisions under the protection of civil rights act that can offer relief to the victims.
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