Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (SP)
Kasargod, Jan 2: Some people threw stones at buses and vehicles returning after taking part in the 'women's wall' movement sponsored by the government in the district on the evening of Tuesday January 1. In this incident, four persons suffered injuries.
The condition of two women among the injured is said to be serious. There are allegations that BJP and Sangh Parivar activists indulged in stone pelting.
Women's wall programme
When the miscreants hurled stones at a bus that was going to Angadimogaru from the town at Kudreppady, Avjabi (35) from Puthige Kandal, and Saraswati from Puthige suffered serious injuries. Both of them were admitted into a hospital at Mangaluru. Two others, Bindu (36) from Puthige and P M Abbas (45) from Perladka, whose nature of injuries is not too serious, were admitted into the general hospital here.
It is learnt that both Saraswati and Avjabi suffered serious injuries in their heads.
At the same time, repots said that some hooligans tried to disturb the women's wall programme at Chetukundu. Stones were thrown at people coming to take part in this programme. On this occasion, friction happened between CPM and BJP activists. The police who rushed to the spot burst teargas shells and caned the warring groups. When this did not succeed in achieving the objective, they fired four rounds in the air. Some policemen and activists of BJP and CPM were injured in stone pelting. Some reporters were also attacked, and cameras of two private television channels were damaged.
Reports also said that the miscreants tried to create obstacles in the women's wall programme by setting grass and shrubs grown on either side of the road on fire at Chetukundu on which women's wall was to be erected. As a result, thick smoke enveloped the area.
The police have taken precautionary measures against escalation of tension. They have also registered case against 200 persons.