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"Government acting under DMK pressure"

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Cases registered against AIADMK MLAs

Puducherry: Secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) here A. Anbalagan, MLA, has charged the Government with acting under the pressure of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, Mr. Anbalagan said that the police first took all the agitators including himself and Ohm Shakthi Segar, MLA, into preventive custody on Thursday for burning an effigy of DMK president M. Karunanidhi and copies of "Murasoli". All the arrested persons were later released.

But cases were registered against himself and Mr. Ohm Shakthi Segar under sections 143 (Unlawful Assembly), 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 186 (obstructing public service in discharge of public functions) and section 506 (2) (criminal intimidation) Indian Penal Code, read with section 149 IPC and section 34 D of Police Act. Mr. Anbalagan said it was bewildering that the police specifically invoked provisions of non-bailable sections against himself and Mr Segar. He charged the Congress Government here with taking recourse to the IPC, only to please the DMK.

He said that DMK convener R.V. Janakiraman insisted on the Government taking stern action and booking the agitators under non-bailable sections.

Mr Anbalagan questioned the propriety of the police invoking provisions of IPC. How could cases be booked under two different criminal legislations for the same incident, he asked.

"Wanted persons"

He said that the police had also clubbed him and Mr Segar with four others in the FIR as "wanted persons", who were not AIADMK volunteers, in connection with some other incident.

All cases filed against him and Mr. Segar should be withdrawn, he said. He would get a nod of his party high command to stage an agitation, in association with alliance parties, to protest against the foisting of false cases against him and his colleague.

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