Demo for medical facility gets go-ahead at Kalpakkam

9 January 2012: Coming to the aid of nuclear safety activists, the Madras high court on 5 January 2012 directed the Kalpakkam police to permit a protest fast by the People's Movement for Nuclear Safety demanding a medical facility in the vicinity of the power plant.

The respondents (Kalpakkam police) are directed to grant permission to the petitioner to hold a protest for one day at a place to be specified by the police, so as to see that no law and order problem is created. In order to highlight the need for a specialty hospital, the forum had applied for police permission to hold a day's fast near the Poigaikarai Roundtana in Sathurangapattinam on December 12. The request was rejected by Kalpakkam police on 10 December 2011.

Source: Times of India