HC disposes of petitions on Thoothukudi police firing incident

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday disposed of a batch of public interest litigation petitions that were filed in 2018 with regard to the Thoothukudi police firing incident.

A Division Bench of Justices C.V. Karthikeyan and R. Sakthivel said the court hoped that the State government would come forward to provide adequate compensation to the family members of the victims.

Earlier, the court had taken note of the compliance report submitted by the State. It was submitted that under the previous DMK government further action was dropped in the disciplinary proceedings initiated against the then Thoothukudi Collector N. Venkatesh, the then Inspector General of Police Shailesh Kumar Yadav and the then Deputy Inspector General of Police Kapil Kumar C. Saratkar.