Lathi charge

23 Jan 2017

In power

AIADMK — Tamil Nadu

Acted

Police, Tamil Nadu

Police used lathis during the eviction and in clashes that followed in Triplicane, Teynampet, Madurai and Coimbatore. Accounts of the sequence differ: protesters told Scroll that police began hitting the crowd with lathis while they were still protesting at Marina, while IANS reported that protesters threw stones at police in Triplicane and police then retaliated with a baton charge. Vehicles outside the Ice House police station in Triplicane were set on fire. Who set the fires is contested. Protesters and residents of the Nadukuppam fishing colony alleged that police set fire to vehicles and the fish market; Assistant Commissioner S. Pandian denied this and showed a video of youths damaging property outside the station. Videos that purported to show police setting fire to autorickshaws circulated on social media. [4][5][6][1][2][3]

• at least 20 policemen injured in the violence, said police (as reported by Hindustan Times) [5]

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