The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday told the Madras High Court that it had accepted the recommendations of the Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission of Inquiry (CoI) only to the extent of initiating departmental action against the revenue and police personnel involved in the Thoothukudi firing which led to the death of 13 anti-Sterlite protesters on May 22, 2018.
The government urged the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy to dismiss a public interest litigation (PIL) petition which insisted upon registering a murder case against the officials concerned. It also opposed the plea to enhance the compensation to the families of the 13 victims from ₹25 lakh to ₹1 crore each.
