14 who stopped Chennai doctor’s burial held under Goondas Act

TNN | May 2, 2020, 09:08 IST

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CHENNAI: The city police commissioner on Friday ordered 14 people detained under the Goondas Act for stopping the burial of the doctor who died of Covid-19 on April 20. Two Chennai corporation engineers and ambulance crew members were also attacked at Anna Nagar during the incident.
The Anna Nagar police booked cases against 90 residents and arrested 21 people including a woman and they were remanded in Puzhal prison. Police personnel are searching for the remaining 69 people based on the video recordings and photos collected from the television channels, which telecasted the protests.
Police booked attempt to murder case apart from other serious Sections of IPC against Annamalai and 20 others including a woman for attacking assistant executive engineer Kalaiyarasan, executive engineer Senthil Kumar and the ambulance crew members – Anand and Damodaran, who suffered injuries in the assault.
Police slapped a case under IPC Sections 307 (attempted to murder), 332 (preventing to discharge the duty of a government servant), apart from 147 (riot), 148, 324 (attacking with sticks), 294 (B) (abusing), 506 (II) (criminal intimidation), 269 (Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) IPC and Section 3 of TNPPDL Act.
A day after that, Chennai City Police commissioner warned that if such incidents are to take place violators will be detained under Goondas Act. On Friday, the Chennai city police commissioner A K Viswanathan ordered to detain 14 people arrested in the rioting case under the Goondas Act.
Those who are detained under the Goondas Act are identified as P Annamalai, 32, A Anandaraj, 33, N Gopinath, 42, M Kadhar Moideen, 48, R Mani, 32, K Manikandan, 30, K Nagendran, 29, K Paulraj, 34, K Sangeetha Rajan, 25, A Shankar, 28, D Saarangapani, 38, K Somasundaram, 24, S Vijay, 26, U Nirmala, 38.