Chennai: Tamil Nadu police have arrested 35 activists, including All India Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) national secretary Nidhi Tripathi, for staging a protest in front of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s residence without prior permission and violated security on Monday. Thirty-two of those detained were remanded in judicial custody by the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Chennai till February 28, while three juvenile offenders were released, police said.
ABVP protesters demanded justice for Lavanya, a schoolgirl who committed suicide in Thanjavur last month.
“Protesters violated the first line of security and ran into the CM’s residence without considering security issues and cooperating with the police forces deployed there,” he said. So we forcibly sent them all out and arrested the key members of the ABVP,” said a police official.
Lavanya’s death sparked political controversy last month, with a local VHP leader releasing a video from her deathbed in which she accused her school management of forcing her to convert to Christianity. After the Madras High Court transferred the probe from the state to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the apex court on Monday dismissed the appeal challenging the high court order, and allowed the central agency to continue the probe.
Our Citizen Reporter,
Venkata T Reddy
