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The Human Rights Forum (HRF) person powerfully condemned the carnal onslaught connected Dr. V. Suresh, nationalist wide caput of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and elder advocator astatine the Madras High Court.
The HRF alleged that the assault, which took spot astatine Tirunelveli successful Tamil Nadu connected Sunday was carried retired by hired agents of a mining mafia. The nationalist proceeding was organised People’s Campaign for Justice to code the societal and biology issues arising from amerciable chromatic quarrying successful Tirunelveli district.
The HRF members said that Dr. Suresh, who was chairing the assemblage sheet of the people’s tribunal, was attacked by 25 persons with an intent to disrupt the nationalist proceeding and to endanger and intimidate the participants. During the battle a seat was flung astatine Dr. Suresh which deed him supra the cervix resulting successful a bleeding injury.
The onslaught took spot successful discourse of Dr. Suresh’s anterior enactment arsenic amicus curiae successful a PIL that exposed a monolithic amerciable beach-sand mineral mining scam crossed Tirunelveli. The lawsuit led to a prohibition connected mining operations.
“We judge that immoderate of the mining companies implicated successful that scam are down Sunday’s attack,” said V.S. Krishna and S. Jeevan Kumar, HRF AP & Telangana Coordination Committee members successful a statement.
The HRF has urged the the TN authorities to institute an autarkic probe into the battle connected Dr. Suresh, the circumstances of non-intervention of the police, registry transgression cases and apprehension each those responsible.
