Attack on police officers condemned

Salem:Salem District Retired Police Officers Association has strongly condemned the recent attack on two senior police officers from Mettur by a group of lawyers inside the campus of the Madras High Court.At a meeting held here on Saturday, the association members, all retired police officials in the ranks of Inspectors, DSPs, ASPs and SPs, claimed that a group of 25 lawyers attacked the Mettur DSP Ashokkumar and Karumalaikoodal Police station Inspector Thangaraju who came to the Court in connection with a case concerning the alleged police assault on two lawyers during a road blockade agitation at Mettur last month.

Protesting against this, a group of Chennai lawyers reportedly kicked and slapped the two police officials and tore their uniforms. These incidents took place inside the High Court campus itself. The officers had been admitted in the hospital with serious injuries.They also expressed shock at the inordinate delay in registering the cases against those who assaulted the police officers and wondered why no one had been arrested so far in this connection.They demanded that a thorough enquiry be initiated into the alleged assault on lawyers at Mettur and if the police officers were found guilty, they should be brought before the law for necessary action.