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Leading the protest, CPI(M) State secretary R.
Rajangam sought an inquiry into the “high-handedness” of the police in resorting to lathicharge against party workers during the protest. Seeking justice: CPI(M) workers protesting against the police action in Puducherry on Friday. | Photo Credit: S_S_KUMARmore-inThe Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) on Friday staged a demonstration at the Jawaharlal Nehru Street-Mahatma Gandhi Road junction condemning the police attack on the party workers during its 22nd State conference in Thoothukudi on Tuesday. Three party workers and a five-year-old boy were injured in the lathicharge by the police at Toovipuram-Anna Nagar junction after a quarrel between the police and the cadre over letting vehicles for a while. The cadre demanded stringent action against an Assistant Superintendent of Police..