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Cops crackdown on SEZ protesters
The police led by DSP Varma cracked down on farmers and leaders of people’s organisations and political outfits preempting their plan to cook food as part of Vanta-Varpu protest and plant saplings in Ramanakkapeta SEZ lands and used force to nab the protesters.
#BIG-IMAGE##Pithapuram: The police led by DSP Varma cracked down on farmers and leaders of people’s organisations and political outfits preempting their plan to cook food as part of Vanta-Varpu protest and plant saplings in Ramanakkapeta SEZ lands and used force to nab the protesters.
A war-like situation and tension prevailed in the area as protesters and police clashed creating law and order situation.
According to reports, over 30 personswere reportedly dragged and bundled into waiting police vans and later they were shifted to Pithapuram and U Kottapalli police stations.
The arrested include CPM district secretary SeshuBabji and party leader Narayana Murthy, RythuSangham leaders Nageswara Rao and Narasimha Rao, AIDWA district secretary Ramani and SEZ VyatirekaPorata Samiti leader Subbi Reddy.
Earlier, the protesters took out a huge rally in thoroughfares of Ramanakkapeta. They cooked food in the village as part of Vanta-Varpu and proceeded to SEZ lands on the outskirts of Ramanakkapeta when the police cracked down on them.
Addressing the protesters, Ramani and Narasimha Rao said as per the Land Acquisition Act 2013, the land acquisition would be deemed null and void if the lands were not put to use within five years of acquisition.
It was more than five years since acquiring the land forcibly from the farmers. Not a single factory could be set up in the SEZ, they said and demanded compensation as per the Land Acquisition Act 2013 and building homes for those who had lost their homes for the SEZ.
They demanded immediate release of those who were arrested illegally.
The DSP clarified that no rally or procession would be allowed in East Godavari as Section 30 of the Indian Police Act is in vogue.
The farmers should settle their grievances using government and legal mechanism, he said and addedthe police would not remain mute spectators if a law and order problem is created. Those who entered the SEZ lands illegally were arrested, he said.
He said that the police informed the protesters in advance on the ban on rallies, but some vested interests instigated the farmers to take out rallies.
