Intercaste Marriage by Son costs Priest his Job

As per a report:

A temple priest in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu was sacked after his son married a woman belonging to a community of another caste, which was in opposition to the alliance, in Kumarapalayam near Namakkal, Tamil Nadu.

The priest of the temple in Kumarapalayam administered by Senkuthur Trust, in which the woman's community members has stake, was removed and another appointed in his place last evening after his son and the woman married, disregarding opposition from the bride's family, police said.

The man and woman, both major, entered into wedlock at Sankari police station in view of the opposition.

Enraged over this, the community members, led by Sankari Lorry Owners Association President Aasaithambi, also a trustee in the temple board, sacked the priest and asked his community members running shops in the temple complex to vacate.

Around 500 members of the woman's community, led by Aasaithambi, also staged a roadblock on a national highway in Kumarapalayam last evening, demanding that she be sent back with them, police said.

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Man files defamation suit against son for inter-caste marriage

As per a report:

A man in Bihar disowned his son and filed a defamation case against him Saturday for marrying out of caste. Sidhnath Sharma, a Patna lawyer, also asserted that his son Sushant Jasu could no longer use his name and will have to pay Rs.10,000 copyright fees every time he used it.

 Filing a defamation suit of Rs.1 crore against his son in the court at Danapur here, Sharma said: "My image and honour was hurt by my son, who solemnized an inter-caste marriage against our wishes, now he must compensate for it..." Sushant Jasu, who works for the central government as a senior tax assistant in Gujarat's Palampur town, married a girl, a resident of Danapur, Patna who works in a private bank on Nov 19, 2013.

 An angry Sharma said: "... I and my wife spent time and money to nurse my son for years but he betrayed us. He fell in love with a girl who came into his life two years ago only." He claimed his son's act has ended a nearly 400-year-old family tradition of marrying within their own caste.

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