fineleg Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Police remove visually challenged protesters — Photo: S.S. Kumar Voicing demands: A visually challenged person being forced to get into a bus at the Kodambakkam bridge in Chennai on Friday. CHENNAI: The police forcibly removed blind protesters in three different areas of the city and detained them for several hours on Friday, as student groups and activists for the visually challenged continued their agitation urging the State Government to consider their ‘15-point charter of demands.’ Their demands include increased financial assistance for graduate and postgraduate students and reservation of five seats in government and government-aided colleges. Protesters at the Kottivakkam overbridge said that police had “slapped†them and used lathis to load them in buses while breaking up the protest. Police officials, however, denied the charges, saying that they only removed the protesters, with traffic being disrupted for more than one hour. Sixteen fasting students were taken to the Government Royapettah hospital, but they refused the intravenous treatment offered to them. Around 200 protesters gathered in Kottivakkam, and several others in Mylapore and Triplicane. Student groups for the visually challenged have been protesting and organising fasts across Tamil Nadu for three days. The groups have also asked the authorities to relax the norms for pension eligibility for visually challenged employees, as well as extend the special vehicle allowance provided for physically handicapped persons to the visually challenged. Murugesan, a member of the College Students and Graduate Association of the Blind, told The Hindu that they would call off their protest if they were allowed to convey their demands directly to the Chief Minister. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I donno exactly what these people are demanding, but disabled...did we ever care about them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 :sad_smile::cry_smile::sad_smile: How can people be so brutal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesiChap Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 :sad_smile::angry_smile::mad::mad::mad::mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted September 29, 2007 Author Share Posted September 29, 2007 I think the police in India can be brutal to even kick and lathi charge children if such a situation arises. Monsters of police brutality :mad: I am not saying these people's demands are right or wrong...but whether the demands had merit or not, there is such a thing called humanitarian feeling - apparently not for our police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Everyone should be allowed to protest as long as normal life is not affected. If any protest disrupts normal life...the police has the right to stop it .....of course using lawful means. And if someone is on hunger strike for too long...then the police is dutibound to get help to feed them .That is the law.....they cannot be mute spectators..... As for slapping and lathi charging...that's really sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theguyinallblue Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 supporters of Prashant Tamang stopped an ambulance..and di not give passage... and they were protesting "peacefully"...locals objected to it..and violence erupted... i think people should sue those who protests by disturbing normal life... India is full of illiterate and uncivilised "leaders" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Heavy fines is the only answer......get them on camera and then get them to pay for the time lost and the damage to public property. Jab baap dada ka ghar bech kar fine karna padega to maa baap joota maar kar ghar mein rakhenge..... This comment is in response to general protests and chakka jaams....not to the OP.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandtest Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 It's really sad to see such news, Police needs to be careful while handling peaceful protesters, in this case these are handicaps, which makes it more disturbing for generally bad image of policewallas in India :sad_smile: On other side, these kind of news reports are blessing in disguise, at least Police will learn that Indian media frenzy are like vultures, they will pray upon such incidents for coverage psy-ops.:confused_smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 If protesters are disturbing normal routine life of civilians with roadblocks etc, then yes, they must be first warned, and then if repeated problem, then arrested by lawful means. Dont just bash and kick the peaceful protesters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parasarora1310 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 man its brutal bechare andhe logon ko maara aur phir band rakha kya police ko aur koi kaam nahi hai kya bas sharif logon to tang karti rehti hai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parasarora1310 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 abhi thode din pehle students ko maara tha bas yahi dekhna baaki reh gaya tha shabaash indian police shabaah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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