Members of Penn Thozhilalar Sangam on Tuesday staged a protest at Varadharajapuram in Ambattur demanding the closure of a Tasmac outlet.
They said the shop located at the junction of Kumarasamy Street and GNG Street had been kept closed temporarily following an order the Madras High Court.
The outlet, located close to a temple, a nursing home and a Bharatanatyam school, which had been shut temporarily following a court order, should be closed permanently, they said. Residents said that the shop was kept open even after the interim injunction of the court restraining them from opening the shop. It was closed only after another protest, said a resident.
“They had planned to open it in 2011 but residents protested and thwarted the move. In an RTI reply furnished by Tasmac, they had promised us the shop would not be opened there as it was a residential area,” . But the shop was opened at the same location,” said a member of the Sangam.
Way back in 2003 a wine shop was opened a few streets away but after protests it was closed. Residents along with various political parties and associations have been staging a series of protests against the functioning of the outlet over the past three years. Last week too, the residents had staged a protest in Tiruvallur. Over 200 women participated in the protest on Tuesday.
