On Monday, Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami defended the police action, which M.K. “Not just in Tamil Nadu, any state will always justify its police action,” said retired Madras high court judge D. Hariparanthaman. Tamil Nadu has topped all Indian states over the years in the use of the preventive detention law. According to the latest data available with the National Crime Records Bureau, in 2015, a total of 1,268 suspects including 21 women were lodged across various prisons in Tamil Nadu, the highest among all states and Union territories. Use of police force in the face of public protests is not new to Tamil Nadu.

Source: Mint July 04, 2017 18:22 UTC