JUDGMENT :

S. Manikumar, J.

The petitioner, a Non Governmental Organisation, registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, approached this Court seeking for the following reliefs :

“(i) Issue a writ of Mandamus, commanding the 7th respondent to take all the necessary measures to keep a law and order situation at Puthur in the place where the burial ground is situated.

(ii) Issue a direction to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th respondents to take strict measures to permit the burial of dead ones of the Chakkiliyan community in the Public burial ground of the Puthur Panchayat peacefully.

(iii) Issue a direction to the 5th respondent to direct his officers below to take the cases of atrocities being committed against the SC/ST community seriously and direct them to take cognizance against the offenders strictly under social boycotting under Sections 3(1) z a(A) of SC/ST (POA) Act 1989, amended in 2016.”

2. Short facts leading to filing of the writ petition are as under:

2.1. The petitioner organisation, in the instant writ petition, is espousing the cause and concerns of th