Protests in Kattankudy

13 August 2011 05:56 am

A tense situation prevailed in Kattankudy this morning.Villagers in the Nawalkuda area in Kattankudy protested against the police. The protest turned violent with villagers resorting to burning tyres in protest of a "mystery man" the police had taken into custody.

The villagers had apprehended a man trying to abuse a woman and the Police had intervened and arrested him. A section of the villagers had demanded the police to show the face of the man, due to the belief that the police had set the man free upon arrest. The police had declined this request which resulted in the protest.

The OIC of the Kattankudy Police had told protestors that the person taken into custody had been produced before the Batticaloa acting magistrate and was remanded until August 23. (M.Sukri, K.S. Vathanakumar, Jifran)