TUTICORIN: A person was killed in fresh police firing on anti-Sterlite plant agitators on Wednesday, while some others had been injured in clashes with safety personnel in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin the town, a day after 10 other people misplaced their lives in police action, officers stated.
Enraged over Tuesday's killings, protesters took to streets and showered stones and brickbats at police, prompting safety personnel to open hearth at Anna Nagar, they stated.
The body of the person killed in firing, and the ones injured have been rushed to a central authority sanatorium.
Locals have been agitating for over 100 days now tough closure of the Vedanta crew copper plant over pollution considerations.
The Tamil Nadu executive has constituted an inquiry fee to look into the topic. The Commission of Inquiry, headed by Aruna Jagadeesan, a retired judge of the Madras top court docket, will probe the violence.
"The panel will cover the law and order incidents following the siege of the District Collectorate on May 22 by thousands of persons violating prohibitory orders," an respectable release stated here.
The Madras top court docket on Wednesday stayed a proposed growth of the Sterlite copper smelter plant in Tuticorin.
Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took suo motu cognisance of the violence and issued notices to chief secretary and the director common of police, calling for detailed stories in two weeks.
Opposition leaders, including DMK operating president M Okay Stalin and MDMK chief Vaiko visited the injured at a sanatorium and enquired concerning the remedy being supplied to them.
The Opposition events strongly condemned the police firing even as CPM State Secretary Okay Balakrishnan and others had been detained by the police once they tried to sit down on a huger strike, seeking suspension of district officers responsible for the police firings.
The police, on the other hand, stated the protesters did not disperse in spite of repeated warnings and pelted stones on the police personnel on 'bandobust' (vigil) responsibility at a locality.
They stated the protesters resorted to violence, leading to the police firing.
Two police cars had been torched and other people had been baton-charged in a sanatorium premises. Two police buses parked in a residential neighbourhood had been set on hearth by unidentified persons.
Some individuals who allegedly tried to forcibly input the overall sanatorium premises had been baton-charged, the police stated.
In view of the prevailing situation, entry to the sanatorium was strictly regulated and hundreds of other people trying to discuss with the wounded in the facility had been dispersed the usage of delicate force, they stated.
Police personnel from neighbouring districts have also been posted here to deal with legislation and order and police patrols have been intensified.
A bench comprising Justice M Sundar and Justice Anitha Sumanth of the Madras top court docket stayed the growth of the second unit of the plant, in line with a petition filed by Fathima Babu, an environmental activist.
The bench also directed the central executive to publish within four months a file after preserving a public hearing in the district to ask public opinion at the plan for growth.
Sterlite had got consent to expand the second unit, as the existing one has remained close for nearly two months after the Tamil Nadu pollution control board refused to resume its consent to perform (CTO) the unit.
NHRC, mentioning media stories, noticed, "It appears that the authorities probably failed to foresee the tragic violence which took place".
Noting that the agitation towards the alleged polluting unit was on for greater than 3 months, the rights body stated efficient precautionary measures and deployment of good enough number of police personnel could have perhaps avoided the unlucky incident.
"It also appears from several media reports, including those on TV news channels that the police resorted to firing on unarmed protesters without following the Standard Operating Procedure, which tantamount to serious violation of human rights and thus is a matter of concern for it," it stated.
A protest was hung on Tuesday at Tuticorin, about 600 km from capital city of Chennai, seeking everlasting closure of Vedanta crew's Sterlite Copper plant over alleged pollution problems. Eight males and two ladies had been killed, besides dozens of men and women including police personnel had been injured in the incident.
Enraged over Tuesday's killings, protesters took to streets and showered stones and brickbats at police, prompting safety personnel to open hearth at Anna Nagar, they stated.
The body of the person killed in firing, and the ones injured have been rushed to a central authority sanatorium.
Locals have been agitating for over 100 days now tough closure of the Vedanta crew copper plant over pollution considerations.
The Tamil Nadu executive has constituted an inquiry fee to look into the topic. The Commission of Inquiry, headed by Aruna Jagadeesan, a retired judge of the Madras top court docket, will probe the violence.
"The panel will cover the law and order incidents following the siege of the District Collectorate on May 22 by thousands of persons violating prohibitory orders," an respectable release stated here.
The Madras top court docket on Wednesday stayed a proposed growth of the Sterlite copper smelter plant in Tuticorin.
Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took suo motu cognisance of the violence and issued notices to chief secretary and the director common of police, calling for detailed stories in two weeks.
Opposition leaders, including DMK operating president M Okay Stalin and MDMK chief Vaiko visited the injured at a sanatorium and enquired concerning the remedy being supplied to them.
The Opposition events strongly condemned the police firing even as CPM State Secretary Okay Balakrishnan and others had been detained by the police once they tried to sit down on a huger strike, seeking suspension of district officers responsible for the police firings.
The police, on the other hand, stated the protesters did not disperse in spite of repeated warnings and pelted stones on the police personnel on 'bandobust' (vigil) responsibility at a locality.
They stated the protesters resorted to violence, leading to the police firing.
Two police cars had been torched and other people had been baton-charged in a sanatorium premises. Two police buses parked in a residential neighbourhood had been set on hearth by unidentified persons.
Some individuals who allegedly tried to forcibly input the overall sanatorium premises had been baton-charged, the police stated.
In view of the prevailing situation, entry to the sanatorium was strictly regulated and hundreds of other people trying to discuss with the wounded in the facility had been dispersed the usage of delicate force, they stated.
Police personnel from neighbouring districts have also been posted here to deal with legislation and order and police patrols have been intensified.
A bench comprising Justice M Sundar and Justice Anitha Sumanth of the Madras top court docket stayed the growth of the second unit of the plant, in line with a petition filed by Fathima Babu, an environmental activist.
The bench also directed the central executive to publish within four months a file after preserving a public hearing in the district to ask public opinion at the plan for growth.
Sterlite had got consent to expand the second unit, as the existing one has remained close for nearly two months after the Tamil Nadu pollution control board refused to resume its consent to perform (CTO) the unit.
NHRC, mentioning media stories, noticed, "It appears that the authorities probably failed to foresee the tragic violence which took place".
Noting that the agitation towards the alleged polluting unit was on for greater than 3 months, the rights body stated efficient precautionary measures and deployment of good enough number of police personnel could have perhaps avoided the unlucky incident.
"It also appears from several media reports, including those on TV news channels that the police resorted to firing on unarmed protesters without following the Standard Operating Procedure, which tantamount to serious violation of human rights and thus is a matter of concern for it," it stated.
A protest was hung on Tuesday at Tuticorin, about 600 km from capital city of Chennai, seeking everlasting closure of Vedanta crew's Sterlite Copper plant over alleged pollution problems. Eight males and two ladies had been killed, besides dozens of men and women including police personnel had been injured in the incident.
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