8th anniversary of anti-Sterlite protest police firing observed in Thoothukudi

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CPM enactment      cadre paying homage to the portraits of victims successful  Thoothukudi connected  Friday.

CPM enactment cadre paying homage to the portraits of victims successful Thoothukudi connected Friday. | Photo Credit: N. RAJESH

Members of assorted governmental parties and organisations paid floral tributes to those who mislaid their lives successful the anti-Sterlite protestation constabulary firing, marking the 8th anniversary connected Friday.

The protestation against the Sterlite Copper works inThoothukudi ended with a tragic constabulary firing held connected May 22, 2018. This has led to the decease of 13 radical and injuries to many.

A tribute gathering was held astatine CPI(M) bureau successful Masilamanipuram, wherever territory caput K.P. Arumugam led enactment members successful paying floral tributes.

DMK organised a memorial lawsuit astatine the party’s northbound territory bureau successful Thoothukudi. Party members led by northbound territory caput P. Geetha Jeevan paid homage and offered flowers to the photographs of those killed successful constabulary firing .

Police idiosyncratic   lasting  defender  infront of Thoothukudi Collectorate connected  Friday owed  to anti-Sterlite constabulary  firing day.

Police idiosyncratic lasting defender infront of Thoothukudi Collectorate connected Friday owed to anti-Sterlite constabulary firing day. | Photo Credit: N. RAJESH

In presumption of the anniversary, constabulary person made elaborate information arrangements crossed the district.

Published - May 22, 2026 09:17 p.m. IST

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