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By Pramod Madhav: Four migrant workers — three from Chhattisgarh and one from Odisha — sustained burn injuries after miscreants set ablaze sheds in a jaggery manufacturing unit at Jedarpalayam in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu. The migrants were asleep in their temporary tin-roofed shelter when it was set on fire.
On May 13 (Saturday), around 1 am, a group of miscreants broke into one of the shelters and torched it. The four victims — identified as Rakesh, 19, from Odisha, Sukiram, 20, Gokul, 24, and Yashwant, 19, from Chattisgarh — were injured in the incident.
Nearly a hundred migrant workers from several states of North India have been working at the jaggery factory. Other workers, after hearing screams, doused the fire and took the injured to the Karur Government Hospital, where they have been admitted in ICU. Rakesh, who was admitted to the hospital with reportedly 80 per cent burns, is in a critical condition.
The district authorities reached the spot and eight special teams have been formed to identify the attackers.
The preliminary investigation revealed that the two warring groups were upset with the authorities for not able to trace the culprits who reportedly murdered a woman, a graduate, on May 11 but had arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the case. The woman was found dead after being sexually assaulted as she had went to rear goats. This has led to a series of protests by the two groups and a few miscreants had already set ablaze to tractors in the area.
As many as 300 policemen have been deployed in the region to maintain law and order while the top police officials have initiated talks with villagers assuring stringent action against those accused of the woman’s death.
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