WB: Police lathicharge Medha Patkar
Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, 26 February 2007 18:02 IST
Singur, Feb 26: Police today resorted to lathicharge to disperse social activist Medha Patkar-led protesters after they tried to approach the fenced area for the Tata Motors small car project at Singur in West Bengal.
Hooghly Superintendent of Police Supratim Sarkar said two persons were arrested.
Patkar said two of her associates, Amita Bag and Dhananjay Das, were injured in the lathicharge.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Hooghly, Asit Pal said police removed the demonstrators.
Patkar with her associates then began a sit-in demonstration a few metres away from the fence.
Earlier addressing farmers from Goplanagar and Bajemelia villages who had set up camps in the area since yesterday, Patkar came down heavily on the state government for going ahead with the Tata Motors project at Singur and the Salim project in Nandigram in East Midnapur.
She said the government was using the police in favour of the enterprise and added that it should stop the project as the farmers were unwilling to hand over their land.
Slogan-shouting farmers from Beraberi Purbapara marched upto the fenced area of the Tata Motors small car project where they had an altercation with the police who stood guard. Police then resorted t"
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