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Wednesday, Jun 01, 2005

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Cases filed against Kallukuttai residents

Staff Reporter

Booked for assault on policemen and damage to public property

CHENNAI: The City Police on Tuesday have registered cases against several dwellers of Kallukuttai, a slum in Perungudi, who had a face off with the police in Adyar on Monday.

Although no arrests have been made, a contingent of police has been stationed in the area to prevent any further conflagration.

Cases have been registered against 10 residents of the slum and others, the police said. They were booked under charges of assault on the policemen, damage to public property and creating a law and order problem.

Monday's riot left several policemen, including Deputy Commissioner of Adyar Ayushmani Tewari and the residents injured. Mr. Tewari reportedly suffered a fracture on his left shoulder blade after being hit by a stone, the police said.

At least three women residents with bandages on their heads were paraded before Law and Information Technology Minister D. Jayakumar, who went to the spot to pacify the protesters.

The rioters pelted stones on a dozen Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses, damaging the windscreens and glass windows.

Officials of the Kancheepuram district administration said the decision on whether to accord permanent housing status to the colony or not would now be taken up by the Government.

The colony of over 9,000 families had sprung up over the past two decades on a 350-acre plot belonging to the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE). The entire colony being an encroachment, the district administration or the local body was unable to extend electricity connection to the houses or allocate funds for roads in the colony.

The District Collector had written to the DoTE for a decision on the status of the colony and the department would now have to send its reply to the Government.

As for water supply, the colony had been provided 17 water tanks with a capacity of 1,000 litres each, the district officials clarified. Water tankers supplied water to these tanks everyday. The demand, they said, could have been for additional supply.

CPI (M) condemns action

While strongly condemning the police action on the residents, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said the Government had stifled a democratic right of protest. The party wanted the Government to consider their demands for water supply, roads, streetlights and sanitation facilities.

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