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Protesting villagers lathicharged

Tiruvannamalai: People who staged road roko demanding the police to register a murder case in connection with the death of a person under suspicious circumstances, were lathicharged in Isukkazhi Katteri village near here on Saturday.

Velu (40), a farmer of Isukkazhi Katteri village, was found dead in the farm on Friday morning.

Villagers suspected it to be a case of murder. But police registered it as suspicious murder and sent the body for post mortem.

After getting the body back from post mortem on Saturday, villagers refused to cremate it demanding the police to register the case of murder and staged a road roko.

The police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the crowd.

However at the end of a conciliatory meeting convened following the lathicharge, villagers cremated the body.

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