In response to the article ‘Police manhandle protesting women conservancy workers’ that appeared in these columns on July 9, the police said that after negotiations, 150 temporary conservancy workers (120 women and 30 men) came out of Ripon Buildings and staged a flash road roko.
As E.V.R. Salai is one of the city’s arterial roads, police intervened and cleared the roko, using restraint. Women police personnel were mobilised for this, the statement said.
Two persons were treated at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital as outpatients for dizziness suffered due to congestion at the road roko venue, it added.
