During the July 3 anti-liquor protest near Pachaiyappas college, a Tasmac shop was ransacked and the protesters had indulged in violence
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Chennai: The judge, who conducted a probe into the allegation of assault of seven persons arrested during anti-liquor protests on Poonamalle road recently, has confirmed that police and jail authorities had assaulted them.
The V additional judge (TADA), city civil court, S Senthil Kumaresan informed the Madras High court that “detenues S Marimuthu, S Dinesh, P Maruthu, A Thirumalai, V Sarathi, K Asath and M Selvakmar have been beaten at the place of agitation with hands and lathis, and also at G-7 Chepet police station with plastic pipes by unidentified and unnamed police persons. They have sustained simple injuries with pain all over body”.
The report further states that the jail officials also assaulted the detenues in front of a quarantine block inside the central jail-II Puzhal premises.
The judge also named jailor B. Ilavarasan, assistant jailor Israel, deputy jailor R. Radhakrishnan and II grade warden No. 102 N Muthumani as the men who had assaulted them “with their hands, and not with any weapon, particularly by fibre or ordinary lathi.” The report has been filed before a division bench headed by Justice S Tamilvanan.
During the July 3 anti-liquor protest near Pachaiyappas college, a Tasmac shop was ransacked and the protesters had indulged in violence. The police arrested 15 persons, including five women, and detained them. While the students among them were released after charges were dropped against them, the others remained in jail.
In the petition, V. Sulochana submitted that her son V. Sarathy was arrested and detained. She alleged that police and jail authorities assaulted him and he sustained injuries. Senior counsel for the petitioner N.R. Elango submitted that while some students were injured and Sarathy and Selvakumar, sustained fracture and bleeding injuries.
When the matter came up for hearing on August 10, a division bench of Justices Tamilvanan and B. Rajendran ordered a judicial probe into the allegations and directed judge Senthil Kumaresan to visit the jail premises and conduct inquiry and to file a report before August 17.
In his report, the district judge confirmed that they had been beaten with hands and plastic pipes. However, they had not suffered any bleeding injuries or fractures.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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