After being apprised of the progress made by the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) in tracing the whereabouts of environmental activist T. Mugilan alias Shanmugam who went missing from Chennai on February 15, the Madras High Court on Thursday granted three more weeks to the police to crack the case.
ஸ்டெர்லைட் ஆலைக்கு எதிரான போராட்டம், கூடங்குளம் அணு உலை எதிர்ப்பு போராட்டம் என பல்வேறு போராட்டங்களின் முன்னணியில் இருந்து செயல்பட்டவர் சமூக ஆர்வலர் முகிலன். இவர் கடந்த பிப்ரவரி 15-ஆம் தேதி சென்னையில் செய்தியாளர்களை சந்தித்தார். அப்போது, தூத்துக்குடி ஸ்டெர்லைட் துப்பாக்கிச் சூடு சம்பவம் தொடர்பாக ஆவணப்படத்தை வெளியிட்டார்.
Advocates Henri Tiphagne and Lajapathy Roy explained the need for media persons to understand their role better in protecting human rights and their defenders at a workshop for journalists organised by Evidence, a non-governmental organisation, here on Sunday.
In his address, Henri Tiphagne, the executive director of human rights organisation People’s Watch, spoke about the role of National Human Rights Commission, State Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.
Rights activists have questioned why the CB-CID did not examine senior police officials, whose alleged complicity in the firing on anti-Sterlite protesters in Thoothukudi was exposed by Mugilan hours before his mysterious disappearance.
Pointing out that over 200 people were examined by the investigating agency, the activist’s son Kaar Muhilan said all those questioned by the police were either his family’s friends or well-wishers.
The environment activist had released a report and video on police highhandedness in Thoothukudi firing; CD-CID unable to trace him in spite of forming 17 special teams in Tamil Nadu.
சமூக ஆர்வலர் முகிலனை கண்டுபிடித்து தரக்கோரி, காவிரி ஆறு பாதுகாப்பு இயக்கம் சார்பில் சென்னை வள்ளுவர் கோட்டம் அருகே நேற்று ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடைபெற்றது. ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்துக்கு இந்திய கம்யூனிஸ்டு கட்சி மூத்த தலைவர் ஆர்.நல்லக்கண்ணு தலைமை தாங்கினார். தமிழர் தேசிய முன்னணி தலைவர் பழ.நெடுமாறன் முன்னிலை வகித்தார். ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்தின் போது ஆர்.நல்லக்கண்ணு நிருபர்களிடம் கூறியதாவது:-
Human rights activists, who voiced their support for families of victims of those killed and injured during the anti-Sterlite rally in Thoothukudi on May 22 last year, have been humiliated by the district administration and Police, Henri Tiphagne, executive director of ‘People’s Watch’, a Madurai based human rights organisation, said.
Tuticorin: The state government, whose police fired at the protesters in Tuticorin killing 13 people one year ago, seems to believe that parameters of justice is providing Rs20 lakh compensation and a bottom rung government job to the victims’ kin. While no single government official has been held accountable so far, the government’s disinterest in providing rehabilitation to the devastated families is appalling, say activists.
MADURAI: If it was not for the high court intervention and the timely judgments, things would have been worse in Thoothukudi," read a report from NGO People’s Watch, which was released during the first anniversary of the Tuticorin police firings, in which 13 people were killed and hundreds injured.
The courts made several significant directives in the case which rattled the conscience of the public in recent times. If not for the court’s intervention, the investigation would have still been with the state police and not much would have come out of it, said the NGO.
