The Madras High Court today
dismissed a state government's plea challenging a lower court's
order granting bail to 65 persons, arrested for their alleged roles in the violence during the anti-Sterlite protests last month.
Justice G R Swaminathan said there was no prima facie case against those who were facing criminal charges.
The police had failed to provide proof for the charges against them, the judge said.
The Tuticorin judicial magistrate had granted bail to the 65 persons recently.
Thirteen people were killed in the police firing on May 22 and 23 after protests for closure of the Vedanta group's Sterlite Copper plant in Tuticorin over pollution concerns turned violent.
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