Tamil Nadu News

Prevention of Atrocities Act cases 2025

September 2 , 2025 16 hrs 0 min 59 0

3,041 SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act cases were booked from 2020 until June 2025 in nine districts of Tamil Nadu.
Madurai tops the list with 514 cases.
Total of 509 cases (about 16%) among the 3,041 booked were closed by police due to ‘mistake of fact.
The highest number of cases closed in such a manner was in Pudukottai with 124, followed by Theni with 97 cases.
76 of the 514 cases in Madurai were recorded in Oomachikulam range alone, as of March 2024.