Shoot at sight orders in Tamilnadu

Shoot at sight orders have been issued in Tamil Nadu in a bid to prevent the lawyers agitation from spreading to the districts while a top police official was transffered as sporadic violence continued across the state on Sat. With anti-social elements using the lawyers' agitation as an excuse to damage public property and burn vehicles, the DGP's office issued the orders on Friday night.

District SP's have been empowered to carry out the order, a release issued by the DGP office said on Friday night, adding action would be taken against those who try to damage vehicles or involve in other illegal activities, it said. In the wake of the clashes between police and advocates in the court premises, Joint Commissioner (Chennai North) M Ramasubramani, under whose jurisdiction the Madras High Court comes, has been transferred.

Ramasubramani has been posted as DIG Railways. He has been replaced by S N Seshasayee, DIG Railways, sources said adding the transfers were effected late on Friday night. Chennai Police, meanwhile, registered FIRs against a number of persons who set on fire a jeep belonging to the Fire and Rescue Services Department in Chennai, under various sections of IPC, including arsoning, rioting and assaulting public servants.

Source: DD News