Even as governments, courts, lawyers, political parties and residents’ associations are grappling over the levels of pollution caused by Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin), a coastal town of southern Tamil Nadu, 13 lives have been lost in police firings in the last two days here in a bid to put down the snowballing protests against the unit.
The use of sniper guns and the injuries caused on the head and the chest of the deceased have led to shrill cries of deliberate murder by the police to please the “political bosses”.
