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TUTICORIN: The one-member retired Justice Aruna Jagadeesan commission formed by the state government to probe the riots and police firing on the hundredth day of the anti-Sterlite protest completed the twenty-third sitting of the hearing here on Friday.
A total of 42 witnesses testified before the commission in the five-day sitting that was held at its camp officer, the old circuit road, on the beach road on Monday.
This takes the total number of witnesses, who have testified before the commission in the 23 sittings, to 586 and a total of 775 documents have been marked so far.
The commission’s counsel Arul Vadivel said that a total of 49 persons were summoned for the sitting. They are primarily fire and rescue services personnel and police personnel and their kin at the police quarters at the third Mile and on the Beach Road, since their quarters were under attack.
Rajinikanth may be summoned in January for his comments on the anti-Sterlite protests
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Last Updated: Dec 17, 2020, 07:27 PM IST
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“He has started shooting so he is likely to be summoned next month. The list of witnesses to be summoned will be prepared after the 23rd sitting ends on Friday,” the Counsel of the commission Arul Vadivel said on Thursday while addressing the media.
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The actor is being summoned as his comment on the ‘intrusion of anti-social elements’ being the reason for the mob turning violent which forced police to open fire created a stir and made him the actor-turned-politician the eye of a media storm.
So far, 586 people have deposed before the panel
The Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission, which is probing the police firing on anti-Sterlite protesters, may summon actor Rajinikanth for appearance in January 2021, according to the panel’s advocate, Arul Vadivel Sekar.
As many as 13 persons were killed in the firing and hundreds injured.
In an informal chat with reporters in Thoothukudi, he said so far, 586 people had deposed before the Commission, and as many as 775 documents had been submitted. Mr. Rajinikanth had visited the injured persons in hospitals and expressed concern over the demise of the 13 people in the firing. After relaxations in COVID-19 norms, the Commission had, again, started examining witnesses, and in the present sitting, which started on December 14, of the 49 persons summoned, 42 had appeared and recorded their submissions, the advocate said.