Tension gripped Uppukottai as a section of the villagers picketed Theni-Bodi Highway condemning an attempt to demolish a community hall at their village here on Monday. Traffic was disrupted for some time.
The community hall on Bodi-Theni highway has been utilised by Devendra Kula Vellalar community people for the past four decades. Kalimuthu, one of the residents of the village who claimed that the land was his own properly, tried to demolish the community hall with an aim of taking possession of the land. The police pacified the crowd and stopped the demolition work. Later, they withdrew the agitation.
The villagers appealed to the government to issue a patta to the land to enable them to use the community hall.
