Six detained for vandalising a church cemetery in Udaiyaarpatti
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Six of the eight accused who’ve been arrested in reference to vandalising 86 tombs in a cemetery below the Sacred Heart Church at Udaiyaarpatti right here on October 16, have been detained below the National Security Act (NSA).
S. Udaiyaar, 53, Tirunelveli district president of the Hindu Makkal Katchi from Vannarpet right here; K. Muruganantham, 48, of Veeravanallur; T. Sankar, 52, of Veeravanallur; R. Sabarirajan, alias, Ayyappan, 50, of Murappanaadu in Thoothukudi district; Senthamarai, 42, of Palayamkottai; and A. Kanthan, 38, of Tirunelveli, have been detained below the Act.
The Bishop of Palayamkottai RC Diocese, S. Antonysamy, accompanied by the office-bearers of assorted political events, together with the ruling AIADMK, had submitted a petition to Collector Shilpa Prabhakar Satish on October 18, in search of stringent motion towards the culprits concerned in the desecration of the tombs with the target of triggering clashes between completely different non secular teams.
Subsequently, the six individuals had been detained. The group of males, armed with crowbars, hammers and different weapons, entered the cemetery at Manimurtheeswaram on the night time of October 16, and smashed the granite crosses on 86 tombs and crushed the polished granite slabs on the tombs.
The matter triggered pressure in the Udaiyaarpatti space when it got here to gentle on Sunday morning. Parishioners of the Sacred Heart Church blocked vehicular site visitors on the North Bypass Road close to the church.
Based on a grievance by Joseph Michael Selvaraj, the parish priest of the Church, the Thatchanallur police commenced an investigation. The investigation reportedly revealed that it was the handiwork of Udaiyaar and 7 others.
The police registered case towards them below Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with lethal weapon), 297 (trespassing on burial locations), 427 (mischief inflicting injury to the quantity of fifty rupees), 294 B (sings, recites or utters any obscene songs or phrases in public locations), 353 A (assaults or makes use of felony power to discourage public servant) and 506 (2) (felony intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code towards Udaiyaar, K. Muruganantham, 48, of Veeravanallur; T. Sankar, 52, of Veeravanallur; R. Sabari Rajan alias Ayyappan, 50, of Murappanaadu; A. Sermadurai, 43, of Tirunelveli Town; A. Kandan, 38, of Kurukkuthurai, close to Tirunelveli junction; Radhakrishnan, 58, of Vannarpet; and S. Subramani alias Soda Mani, 49, of Veeravanallur.
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