Police officers are happily watching the crime in Madras law college premises located in Madras High Court complex.
In false 498a cases these honest police are duty bound to knock the doors in early mornings and arrest innocent people, aged women and men, and children.
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Two groups of armed students clash Chennai: There was a bloodbath on the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law College premises here on Wednesday evening, with two groups of armed students attacking each other with deadly weapons on an examination day. A large posse of police personnel, which had reached the spot in time, stood mute witness to a murderous assault on a student.
Even as the student — who is said to have triggered the whole sequence of violent incidents when he entered the campus brandishing a long knife — was being thrashed by a 15-member mob, the police remained unmoved just a few metres away. Though photo journalists, who were clicking every bit of action, pleaded with the police to rush in and rescue the boy, their cries fell on deaf ears. The 90-minute drama left four students grievously injured.
When asked why police hesitated to enter the campus, an official said they were waiting for permission from the college principal. A senior jurist, however, said that when a cognizable offence is being committed, that too in front of their own eyes, the law enforcing authorities need not wait for any permission. They can act without any complaint, even if it occurs inside private premises, he said. “It is only a convention that police should wait for permission from the college authorities, but nothing in law prohibits them from acting during violence,” admitted a senior education ministry official.
According to eyewitnesses and visuals the boy was attacked by the mob even after he stepped out of the college campus. After the violence, the police sealed all exit gates and trapped a group of about 60 students, including those who had unleashed violence earlier.
Officials, who were closeted with the college principal for a while, later picked up three students — identified as Prabhakar, Jayakumar and Balamurugan — and took them to the Esplanade police station.
A police official said the genesis of the dispute was printing of some wall posters during the recent birth anniversary celebrations of a national leader. A section of students, he said, protested the omission of another leader’s name in those posters. Another official, however, said it was essentially a clash between tel students and day scholars.
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