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Wednesday, Jun 29, 2005

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Attack on fisherfolk: 10 arrested

City Bureau

CHENNAI: The police have arrested 10 persons in connection with the attack on fisherfolk families at Nalla Thanneer Odai Kuppan near Tiruvottiyur.

They were charged under Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapons), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons), 336 (doing any act which endangers human life or the personal safety of others) and 506 (ii) (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.

The Tiruvottiyur police identified the arrested as Ramalingam, Meghadan, Jayasakthi, Velu, Satyanarayanan, Asaithambi, Chinnakumar, Manickam, Elango and Ramu. All of them belonged to Nalla Thanneer Odai Kuppam, and were remanded to judicial custody on Tuesday evening , the police added.

Earlier on Tuesday , when the public interest litigation petition filed by advocate K. Gopal came up for hearing, the First Bench of the court asked the Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai, to file a report detailing the action on the matter.

As S. Prabakaran, counsel for the petitioner and president of the Madras High Court Advocates Association, insisted on police protection for the families willing to return to the kuppam, the Bench said no separate orders were required as it was the police's duty. It then asked the Government Pleader to instruct the Commissioner to ensure their safety.

The matter would come up again on Friday.

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