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Cases against anti-petro coke plant agitators

VISAKHAPATNAM: Two days after fisherfolk ransacked two police jeeps and chased the cops away during a public hearing on the proposed petroleum coke plant at Chatametta village in Rambilli mandal, police on Friday registered six cases, including attempt-to-murder, on about 200 agitators. The public hearing was held at Chatametta village in Rambilli mandal on Wednesday.

The Visakha rural police, after examining the video footage on the violence, registered six cases against the agitators. They also named district CPM secretary Ch Narsinga Rao, TDP leader Sundarapu Satish and fishermen’s leader Gonagalla Vivek, besides 200 villagers in the FIR. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-09/hyderabad/32139778_1_coke-plant-agitators-rural-police

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Intercultural Resources is a forum for research and political intervention on issues related to the impacts and alternatives to destructive development. Our effort draws upon the social, cultural, material and intellectual resources that have been generated in the course of dialogues between people of different cultures on questions of social justice, development and self-rule. We are of the view that dialogue can sustain plurality and open possibilities for recovery of the ground lost on account of inter-cultural alienation, which is manifest in a variety of forms of violence that we encounter everyday at different levels of social life. Intercultural Resources is based in Delhi, India. Email: ihpindia@gmail.com

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