Thiruvananthapuram, September 13, 2011
20 injured as two groups clash
Staff Reporter
A group of people resist DHRM's protest march
At least 20 persons, including four policemen, were injured when
police baton charged a mob which attacked Dalit Human Rights Movement
(DHRM) demonstrators at Thumpode in the Pallickal police station
limits on Monday. The violence started at 11.40 a.m. when 200 DHRM
activists, most of them from other parts of the district, assembled at
the Thumpode junction to stage a march towards the local police
station in protest against the arrest of their workers on the 'foisted
charge' of destroying crops of members of other communities.
They also demanded the police arrest those responsible for the recent
attack on the houses of two Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe families
in Madavoor village.
Soon, a large number of local people, cutting across political lines,
gathered at the junction to counter the DHRM protestors. They blocked
the 4-km road from Thumpode to Pallickal and prevented DHRM workers
from marching towards the police station.
The crowd started throwing stones at the DHRM activists who retaliated
in kind. Fourteen DHRM activists and an unknown number of local
residents were injured in the stone-throwing. The injured were
admitted to different hospitals in Attingal taluk.
A large police posse led by Deputy Superintend of Police, Attingal,
K.E. Baiju, separated the warring groups and baton charged the local
residents who persisted in attacking the DHRM men, despite the police
intervention.
Subsequently, policemen, in anti-riot gear, escorted the DHRM men from
Thumpode to Pallickal, where the activists staged a protest. The DHRM
men courted arrested peacefully at 2 p.m.
Mr. Baiju said members of both groups had been booked on charges of
rioting, unlawful assembly, attacking policemen on duty, and creating
enmity between different groups of people, under various sections of
the Indian Penal Code.
Rajendran Unnithan, president of the Madavoor panchayat, said local
residents and traders would observe a hartal in the area on Tuesday to
protest against the 'socially disruptive and militant activities' of
the DHRM.
He said only four Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe families in the area
supported the DHRM. The other families of the community had joined
hands with the rest of the residents to protest against the DHRM's
activities. He said the police action was pro-DHRM and directed solely
against the local residents.
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