A day after a 14-year-old tribal boy filed a complaint against AIADMK minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan for making him remove his slippers, his family has withdrawn the complaint.

Kethan, a student of Class 9, approached the Nilgiris police on Thursday, 6 February, seeking to file a complaint stating, “Because a minister was telling me this in the midst of police, higher officials, public and press, I was afraid, and so I bent down to remove his slippers.”

The complainant demanded action against Sreenivasan under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.