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taking to road: Velayuthapuram villagers staging a road roko on Tirunelveli- Rajapalayam highway on Sunday after the Muthuramalinga Thevar statue in their hamlet was vandalised by unidentified miscreants. TIRUNELVELI: Vehicular movement on the Tirunelveli–Rajapalayam highway remained affected for several hours on Sunday since 6 a.m. after a group of villagers blocked traffic on this busy stretch protesting the vandalising of the life-sized Muthuramalinga Thevar statue at Velayuthapuram under the Karivalamvanthanallur police station limits. As the protesters refused to give up their agitation even after the police officials pacified them, mild force was used to disperse them, which threw stones on the law-enforcers, causing bleeding injury to a policeman in the forehead. The police have detained a group of persons for blocking traffic and throwing stones. When a group of women of Velayuthapuram, a small hamlet under the Perumalpatthi village panchayat with just 30 families, saw the head of the cement statue had been removed, they informed village head Perumal. As the news spread, people from the villages such as Aasilaapuram, Perumalpatti, Vaazhavanthaalpuram, Arugankulam, Aavaranthai and Senthattiyapuram, gathered at the spot and staged a road roko. “When a Thevar statue on the same spot was vandalised by the culprits two years ago, the police assured us that anyone involved in the incident would be arrested immediately. Though none was arrested in connection with that incident, a new statue was installed at this place with the contribution of the public and the police. So we want to put an end to this problem permanently by ensuring the arrest of the real culprits involved in this incident,” said P. Ravikumar, a textile mill worker. Even as police officials, led by the Superintendent of Police, C. Sridar, held talks with the protesters, some of them contacted their community leaders at Tirunelveli and Madurai over the phone and asked them to visit the spot to intensify the struggle. However, the arrival of the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Tirunelveli Range, P. Kannappan, at the spot and the subsequent use of mild force to disperse the protesters kept those leaders away from the protest venue. Our Virudhunagar reporter writes: The damage to the statue resulted in road blockades at five places in the district. The impromptu agitations in different parts of the district disrupted vehicular traffic for over 30 minutes and kept the police on their toes.
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