RICHY: Many parts in and around Trichy witnessed revellers belonging to the Mutharaiyar(MUDIRAJ,MUTHURAJA) community going on a rampage during 1,337th birthday celebrations of 'King Perumbidugu Mutharaiyar(MUDIRAJ,MUTHURAJA)' from dawn to dusk on Wednesday. A police inspector was attacked and more than five buses were damaged by the gang.
As the state government declared his birthday celebrations as an official function, the state school education minister NR Sivapathy on behalf of the state government, district collector Jayashree Muralidharan, mayor A Jaya , MP P Kumar and MLAs garlanded his statue on Bharathidasan Salai in the morning.
Like every year, this year also youngsters belonging to the single-largest community of the district started roaming the city in vehicles, sitting on roofs raising slogans of their leader. Though such activities remained unchanged every year, people of Trichy district got irritated by the intolerable behaviour of the revellers from the morning till evening. Unlike last year, the people of the community from Thanjavur also joined the local men.
For instance, a group of them coming by a vehicle were reportedly teasing some people on the road in Palakkarai area. Hence people of the area intercepted them and entered into heated arguments with them. On information, Gandhi market police inspector A Kannadasan rushed to the spot to solve the problem. Unfortunately, he was attacked by the gang and sustained injuries. The police were forced to resort to a mild lathi-charge to disperse the crowd. When contacted, Gandhi market police said they were going to file a case against the offenders.
Likewise, another gang reportedly entered the All women police station in Srirangam, raising slogans. The women police solved the problem amicably by sending them back. They did not even spare the office of the MLA of Srirangam constituency and went into the office with their flags. The gang also caused damage to private property in Lalgudi, Srirangam and Palakkarai areas.
Moreover, they damaged more than five private buses and a private engineering college bus during their procession.
Despite being aware of such bitter incidents during previous such celebrations, the police failed to deploy a large posse and regulate traffic.
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