Referring to the findings of the preliminary investigation, he denied the claims of a piece that there was a stone pelting through the rally.

Briefing reporters accompanied by District Collector M Thangavel, the highest police officer, stated, “Within the first petition introduced by the TVK on September 23, they requested for the Lighthouse-Roundabout junction for his or her chief to ship the handle. However, it was rejected as it’s a excessive threat place and if there’s a dense crowd, it is going to be tough to conduct a gathering,” he stated.

Once more, TVK had petitioned asking for permission within the Roundabout or Uzhavar Sandhai and it was rejected as it’s a ‘slender space’ and can’t accommodate dense crowd, he stated.

Police division instructed a spot the place one other public assembly was carried out by the Chief of Opposition Edappadi Okay Palaniswami on September 26, through which 12,000 to 13,000 individuals gathered, he stated.

“On September 26 they introduced one other petition and obtained the approval to carry the assembly the place it was held yesterday ” he stated.

“As per preliminary investigation, massive variety of individuals had been arriving on the venue at 12 midday with out having breakfast and they didn’t have lunch as properly. No meals or water was provided to them by the organisers,” he stated.

“As their chief began the marketing campaign behind the scheduled within the morning, he left Namakkal by 4.15 pm and reached the venue at 6pm . It was purported to be a 30 minute journey. But it surely took nearly 2 hours for him. Since, all of the individuals had been standing with out meals and water since morning, they grew to become stressed and anxious,” he stated.

A few of them had been travelling behind Vijay’s car and as a result of this, there was an additional delay of an hour for them to succeed in the designated spot, he stated.

“It’s at the moment incident has occurred. We’ll examine what led to the incident,” he stated.

The police official additionally clarified that relying upon the gang, police personnel are deployed for such public conferences. “If there’s a free crowd, one police officer might be deployed for each 10 ft and if there’s a standing crowd, one policeman might be there for safety for each 5-7 ft. Suppose, if there’s a dense crowd, one police man might be there on obligation for each 4.5 to five ft,” he stated.

Equally, he stated, one police man can be deployed for 250-300 individuals if it falls below low-risk class, and if its average class, one police man might be there for safety of 100-150 individuals and whether it is excessive threat class 1 police man is deployed for each 50 individuals.

“For the assembly on September 27 by TVK, almost 500 police personnel had been on obligation which embrace Superintendent of Police, 3 Further SPs, 4 DSPs, 7 inspectors, 58 sub-inspectors”, he stated.

Responding to a question, he stated the organisers additionally ought to lengthen their cooperation to the police personnel when there was large crowd just like the one witnessed in Karur on September 27.

“Because the Vijay’s car was 50 metres away from the talking spot in Karur, he was instructed by a DSP ranked police officer to cease the car and handle the gathering from that place itself. However they didn’t lengthen their cooperation and insisted that they go the designated spot,” he stated.

“For the AIADMK public assembly on September 26, 137 police personnel had been deployed. It was orderly crowd, properly regulated and after the assembly the gang dispersed in a clean method,” he stated to a question.

Giving some statistics of police deployment for the TVK conferences held elsewhere, Devasirvatham stated 650 police personnel had been deployed in Tiruchirappalli as it’s a metropolis with an airport. For the Ariyalur marketing campaign, 287 police personnel had been deployed, in Perambalur 480 police had been posted, In Nagapattinam there was a deployment of 410 and in Tiruvarur 413 police personnel had been on obligation.

For Namakkal assembly on September 27, there have been 279 police personnel, he stated.

He additionally referred to an incident in Namakkal through the TVK marketing campaign through which 34 individuals suffered ‘heatstroke’.

“They had been standing for lengthy hours and nonetheless 4 persons are below commentary within the Authorities Hospital,” he stated.

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