Bail for Sri Lankan refugees in India
March 4, 2010 01:03 am
The case was that the petitioners,
Padamaraja and others, demanding release of some refugees from the camp, organised
a hunger strike on February 2.
When it was on, police tried to
persuade them to withdraw the fast.
It was alleged that enraged at the
police’s efforts, the petitioners detained the police personnel and attacked
them. They were arrested and remanded to judicial custody.
Justice S. Nagamuthu said having
regard to the fact that the injured police personnel had been discharged from
hospital and that the petitioners were, after all, refugees from Sri Lanka, he
was inclined to grant bail on very stringent conditions.
