PTI

Kallakurichi (TN), July 17

Violence broke out on Sunday close to right here as protesters demanding justice over the loss of life of a woman pupil went on a rampage setting hearth to autos and indulged in stone pelting, during which police personnel additionally grew to become the goal.

Police opened hearth within the air at the least twice to restrain the violent mobs.

Chief Minister M Okay Stalin appealed to the folks to take care of peace and guaranteed them that these responsible could be punished.

Stalin tweeted saying he has directed prime officers to hurry to Kallakurichi.

The agitators, pushing down barricades put up by the police, stormed the premises of an ‘worldwide’ college at close by Chinnasalem and set buses parked contained in the establishment’s premises on hearth, police mentioned.

Some of them set ablaze a police bus as properly. A automotive was turned the other way up and broken utilizing hammers.

Several protesters managed to achieve the terrace and vandalised the college identify board and held excessive banners in search of justice for the useless lady.

Outnumbered for some time, the most effective efforts of police to disperse the protesters proved futile.

Police personnel from close by districts have begun arriving right here as a part of measures to deal with the scenario.

A bit of agitators had a free run and indulged in vandalism inside the college premises. Some of them took away issues like furnishings and almirah from the college, broken them and set them on hearth on the highway.

The protesters embrace volunteers of a youth outfit they usually had gathered in big numbers following messages in social media urging solidarity for justice.

While agitators flung stones at police women and men, a number of uniformed personnel picked up such stones and threw them again on the mobs. As a results of the violence, which started as a ‘highway blockade protest’ on Sunday, led to visitors disruptions on the arterial Chennai-Salem freeway.

Director General of Police C Sylendra Babu appealed to the folks to take care of calm and warned in opposition to resorting to violence. Tough motion could be taken in opposition to these indulging in violence, he informed reporters in Chennai.

A-17 yr previous lady, learning Class 12 in a non-public residential college in Chinnasalem, about 15 km from right here was discovered useless on July 13 within the hostel premises.

The lady, an inmate of a room on the third ground of the hostel was suspected to have ended her life by leaping to the bottom from the highest ground. A postmortem report reportedly indicated that she had sustained accidents earlier than her loss of life. Police registered a case and a probe is on.

Shocked by her loss of life, her mother and father, kin and folks belonging to her village Periyanasalur, off Veppur in Cuddalore district have been staging continuous protest in search of justice.

Blaming the ‘worldwide’ college authorities and in search of motion in opposition to them they held a protest right here on July 16 for the fourth successive day.

Their calls for, which have the help of a political outfit and the youth wing of a Left social gathering, embrace a CB-CID probe and arrest of these answerable for the lady’s loss of life.