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Tension prevailed successful Thalavadi Hills connected Friday implicit a quality concerning a 9.5 acre cemetery astatine Panahalli village, utilized by each section communities. Thalavadi tahsildar and constabulary officials had precocious erected ligament obstruction astir the cemetery, claiming the onshore belonged to the Waqf Board.
Both sides person approached the Madras High Court. The court, portion examining the case, had issued a announcement directing the State authorities to respond appropriately regarding the cemetery issue.
On Thursday night, portion the lawsuit was pending, unidentified persons reportedly damaged the obstruction erected astir the cemetery. Based connected the CCTV footage, constabulary picked up 10 suspects from Panahalli colony astatine 2 a.m. connected Friday and took them for questioning. This led to aggravated villagers protesting astatine midnight, questioning wherefore the arrests were made astatine nighttime and asking officials to travel successful the morning. They besides blocked a authorities conveyance during the protest.
Sathyamangalam Deputy Superintendent of Police (in charge) Shanmugasundaram tried to clasp bid talks with the villagers. When immoderate villagers refused to cooperate and abruptly raised achromatic flags successful protest, the concern escalated. They continued to signifier a protestation successful the colony and implicit 250 policemen were posted to support instrumentality and bid successful the village.
