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Police firing on Dalits in TN: Toll rises to 7
Press Trust Of India
Updated Sep 12, 2011 at 04:15pm IST
Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu: With two more persons succumbing to injuries
at a hospital, the death toll in the police firing on a stone-pelting
mob of Dalits, who indulged in violence following detention of their
leader John Pandian, has risen to seven, police said on Monday.
Two persons identified as Teerpukani and Vellaichamy succumbed to
injuries late on Sunday night.
Officials have suspended bus services to the rural areas in the
sensitive districts, including Ramanathapuram, Madurai, Sivaganga and
Virudhunagar as a precautionary step.
Additional police reinforcement have been brought from
Tiruchirappalli, police said.
Violence broke out yesterday after news spread that Pandian had been
detained at Tuticorin en route to Paramakudi when he was on his way to
pay homage to Dalit leader Imanuel Sekar on his death anniversary.
Police used tear gas and batons before firing at the crowd at Paramakudi.
Several people and police officials, including DIG Sandeep Mittal and
SP Senthil Velan and DSP Ganesan were injured in the stone pelting.
More than 15
vehicles were set ablaze in the violence.
Police said they had arrested 57 persons in Tirumangalam and more than
50 in Paramakudi for indulging in violence.
Local Dalit leaders blamed police for not making proper arrangements
to manage the huge crowd expected for paying homage to the Dalit
leader.
However, defending the police firing, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had
yesterday blamed some people for disrupting law and order "for their
own political gains."
"The protesters indulged in large-scale violence and torched police vehicles.
Police opened fire in self defence and to protect public property",
Jayalalithaa, who announced Rs one lakh compensation to the next of
kin of those killed, said.
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