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Law college clash: enquiry reports sought

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Tamil Nadu government to produce the enquiry reports against police officials who remained as mute spectators during the Chennai Dr. Ambedkar Law College incidents in November 2008 when two groups of students indulged in violent clashes on the college campus.

A Bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar gave this direction on a writ petition filed by K. Saravanan Karuppasamy who alleged that the clash took place between students of Thevar and Scheduled Castes communities of Dr. Ambedkar Law College in November 2008 and no action was taken by the police to prevent the clashes.

During the resumed hearing on Friday, senior counsel Altaf Ahmed submitted that departmental action had been taken against police personnel who were on the spot when the incident took place. Action was taken on the recommendations of an enquiry commission appointed to probe into this incident, he said.

Further, he submitted that charge sheets had been filed against the two groups of students who were involved in the incidents.

At this, the Bench Directed the State to produce the enquiry reports and the action-taken report on the recommendations of the Enquiry Commission and posted the matter for further hearing on April 1. The petitioner said that when the clashes broke out on the campus, the police did not intervene because it said that it had no complaint or permission from the college principal to enter the premises.

In its counter, the Tamil Nadu government said that as a precautionary measure police were posted outside the college, but as the incident took place within the campus, the police could not immediately enter the premises.

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