Taking a tough stand, the district police have booked more than 200 cases against those who violated the prohibitory order imposed by the district administration under section 144 of Cr PC during Dalit leader Immanuel Sekaran death anniversary on September 11 and Thevar Jayanthi from October 28 to 30 at Pasumpon.
After the district administration had issued a set of ‘do’s and don’ts’ for the volunteers who came to the memorial for paying homage to the Dalit leader and freedom fighter Muthramalinga Thevar on the occasion of their death and birth anniversaries, police noticed violations of the order and booked the violators after analysing the CCTV footages.
After booking 109 cases against those violated the orders, while visiting the memorial of Immanuel Sekaran at Paramakudi, the district police have so far booked 102 cases against violators during the Thevar Jayanthi and involving 196 vehicles, mostly cars, police said. “The registration of cases will continue till all the violators are brought to book,” Superintendent of Police Omprakash Meena said.
During the Thevar Jayanthi, the police had installed more than 300 CCTV cameras at the memorial site at Pasumpon, at check posts, sensitive spots and other vantage places to watch the movements of the volunteers and vehicles.
The Kamuthi and Parthibanur police have registered the FIRs and the violators were booked under sections 144 (unlawful assembly) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of Indian Penal Code read with section 177 of Motor Vehicles Act. All the vehicles, which figured in the violations, would be seized and produced before courts, police said.
On the day when the volunteers violated the orders, the police exercised restraint and left them untouched as they came in a mob and any action would have triggered unnecessary problems, the SP said. However, police noted down the vehicle numbers and waited for their turn. The volunteers breached the collector’s order by coming in convoys of more than three vehicles, travelling on roof tops, bursting crackers, carrying banners and for behaving unruly.
