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Collusion between Sterlite and Tamil Nadu government? -Saurav Datta

-National Herald

The police acted in gross violation of the law, killing 13 people; the judiciary failed the people and the media spread canards     

The targeted shooting of peaceful demonstrators in Thoothukudi (also known as Tuticorin), which resulted in the Tamil Nadu Police killing 13 people in cold blood, and injuring scores of others, and the subsequent brutal crackdown on civilians, points to a sinister collusion between the owners of Sterlite Industries and the government, a fact-finding report recently released in Delhi has asserted.

Titled “The Day Tuticorin Burned”, this “people’s inquest” report, running into 2445 pages, has been prepared by a team of 69 civil society members including retired high court and Supreme Court judges, lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and activists who visited Tuticorin between May 28 and June 1 this year.

The government and police’s hostility towards the report has been such that at various places in Tamil Nadu, where the team had booked auditoriums and seminar halls for meetings to release the report, the police cancelled the permission at the last moment. In one incident, this was done even as a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Gopala Gowda, was to chair a meeting, said Mathew Jacob of People’s Watch, who was a member of the probe team.

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