Cases registered against PMK leaders and workers

The Triplicane police have registered a case against over 1,000 members of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), together with its president G.K. Mani and youth wing chief Anbumani Ramadoss, for violating lockdown norms and staging a protest on Tuesday.

The Nungambakkam police registered circumstances against Mr. Mani, former Union Minister A.K. Moorthy, and over 160 workers for staging a protest at Valluvar Kottam on Wednesday in violation of lockdown norms.

PMK founder S. Ramadoss had introduced protests from December 1, demanding 20% separate reservation for the Vanniyars in schooling and employment in Tamil Nadu.

Traffic on GST Road within the southern suburbs was paralysed for hours on Tuesday morning as PMK workers blocked the street close to Perungalathur when the police prevented them from coming into the town for staging an illustration.

The Chennai metropolis police registered a case against Dr. Anbumani and different leaders beneath the Indian Penal Code and the Epidemic Diseases Act.

Later within the day, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss addressed the workers on Anna Salai and met Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam and senior Ministers on the Secretariat.

On Wednesday, the social gathering workers and leaders, together with Mr. Mani and Mr. Moorthy, staged an illustration at Valluvar Kottam. “Though it is a space allocated for agitations, we have registered a case as protests are not allowed during the pandemic,” mentioned a police officer.

‘Anbumani absconding’

The police have talked about Dr. Anbumani as absconding within the case filed for Tuesday’s protests.

This was as a result of “… he did not court arrest like the others, but went to meet the Chief Minister straight from the agitation spot,” an officer mentioned.