City police register cases against councillors

March 16, 2013 10:11 am | Updated 10:11 am IST - COIMBATORE:

The Ukkadam Police have registered cases against a few All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Councillors on charges of assaulting Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Councillor Meena Loganathan.

Based on a counter-complaint from the AIADMK Councillors, the Police have also registered cases against DMK Councillors Meena Loganathan, R. Ravindiraraj and Congress Councillor R. Gayathri. In her complaint, Ms. Loganathan had stated that towards the end of the Corporation’s Budget Meeting on Thursday, AIADMK councillors manhandled her, pushed her out of the Council Hall and assaulted her.

The Councillors include V. Annammal (Ward 22), K. Gomathi (Ward 78), S.R. Arjunan alias Gopalakrishnan (Ward 28), Venthamarai Balu (Ward 44), E. Senthil (Ward 21), K. Arjunan (Ward 85) and a few others.

The police have slapped Sections 147 (rioting) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code.

In the complaint filed by Ms. Annammal, she had stated that DMK Councillors Ms. Loganathan and M. Ravindiraraj and Congress Councillor R. Gayathri had assaulted her and a few other councillors. The police have registered two cases in this connection.

Meanwhile, the DMK has planned to hold a demonstration in Gandhipuram on Saturday to protest against the treatment meted out to the woman councillors.

Ms. Loganathan said that the protest would be held in Gandhipuram, in front of Hotel Tamil Nadu, at 4 p.m.

Councillors clashed outside the Corporation Council Hall on Thursday soon after Finance and Taxation Committee Chairman R. Prabhakaran presented the Budget.

The DMK Councillors sought a day’s time to study the Budget to prepare for the debate.

Mayor S.M. Velusamy thought otherwise and said that the Budget discussion would be held the same day — Thursday at 3.30 p.m. This triggered the protest that later resulted in the AIADMK Councillors assaulting Ms. Loganathan.

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