Kozhikode
The collectorate premises here witnessed stormy scenes on Thursday when the police foiled the attempts by a group of Indian Youth Congress workers to stage a protest against the proposed SilverLine project. The activists, who marched to the collectorate with a plan to lay a symbolic survey stone in the area, were stopped at the main gate when they tried to cross the barricade, provoking the police.
Though tear gas shells and water cannons were used to disperse the protesters, it only intensified the protest. When a few sat on the road, another group of irate protesters crossed the barricade and barged into the collectorate compound.
