CHENNAI: BJP state president Nainar Nagenthran called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah to intervene and “take appropriate action” regarding the allegedly deteriorating law and order situation in Tamil Nadu.
Nagenthran’s letter comes in the wake of the recent incident of four juveniles brutally assaulting a youth from Odisha, who was travelling on a train near Tiruttani, with machetes and posting a video of the assault online.
Incidentally, another scuffle that took place at the Tiruttani railway station and the assault of a migrant worker in Coimbatore led to further criticism from opposition parties on Wednesday.
Police, however, said that the second incident at the Tiruttani station took place because the victim Jamal, a local who sells old sarees, was in an inebriated state and had said something inappropriate to two youngsters who were walking along the platform, before being beaten up. According to the FIR filed based on Jamal’s complaint, he had consumed liquor with his friend nearby and had come to the railway station to relieve himself and not to board any train.
A release by the government railway police said that it did not appear that the two youngsters were at the station to engage in any unlawful activities. It added that two special teams have been formed to arrest the suspects who are currently absconding.
Former BJP state president K Annamalai also reacted strongly to the incident on X. Sharing a communication by Dr Sandeep Mittal, ADGP, state cyber crime wing, requesting the taking down of URLs of several posts that featured the video clip of the violent attack on the Odisha youth, Annamalai said, “It is the fundamental duty of the opposition to expose state apathy and administrative decay. If highlighting these failures causes such discomfort to the DMK govt, the solution is not to pressure X Corp into blocking voices that raise concerns”.
AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami said the recent incidents demonstrated the utter failure of governance under the DMK regime. “Drug-fuelled violence has become a daily headline in TN,” he alleged.
Migrant worker stabbed in Kovai bakery attack
Coimbatore: The police are searching for two men who allegedly stabbed a migrant labourer at a bakery in Karumathampatti, on December 15. CCTV footage of the incident surfaced online on Wednesday. The injured man, Govind Kond (27) of UP, is a carpenter employed with a private firm. Police said an argument broke out between customers around 5 pm when Govind replied in Hindi that he did not know Tamil. After one assailant slapped his co-worker Rakesh (19), Govind intervened and was stabbed on the chest, waist and hands. Govind later received treatment and lodged a complaint. ENS