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Doctor “attacked” in Tirunelveli

TIRUNELVELI: The district treasurer of Doctors’ Association for Social Equality, K. Shunmugaraja, sustained serious cut injury on the head on Monday when a land mafia allegedly attacked him with the sickle and clubs.

Sources close to the victim and his family said a group of people from Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai were making repeated attempts to forcibly grab doctor’s land at Keezha Veeraraghavapuram opposite Government College of Engineering here “for a throwaway price.”

When the physician, working as the medical officer of Ukkirankottai Primary Health Centre, refused to relent, he was attacked by an armed gang when he had gone to see the land on Monday morning.

With grievous cut injury on the head that required 12 sutures and multiple internal injuries, he has been admitted to a private hospital here.

His condition is said to be stable.

The Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of India, R. Nallakannu, who visited the doctor on Monday evening, told reporters that grabbing of prime properties by land mafia by creating forged documents was on the rise in the State and people were being threatened by gangs to sell their lands for the prices fixed by them.

“This trend should be checked immediately,” the leader urged the Government.

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