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PUDUCHERRY: Rajya Sabha member and senior Congress leader P Kannan on Thursday petitioned Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh, seeking his intervention in setting right the ‘worsening law and order situation’ through the implementation of the Puducherry Prevention of Anti-social Activities Act 2008, popularly known as the Goondas Act.Accompanied by MLA K Lakshminarayanan and other Congress leaders, Kannan called on the LG at Raj Nivas to press the demand. In a memorandum submitted to the LG, Kannan alleged that the law and order situation has gone out of the hands of police. Notorious criminals, roaming free with lethal weapons, are intimidating people and extorting money and valuables from them.Extortions, the memorandum went on to state, were common and this was affecting trade and industry in an adverse manner. Anyone who refuses to part with ‘mamool’ is brutally attacked with lethal weapons, Kannan said, adding that not a day passes by without an incident of murder or looting. There was no point in blaming the police as proposals for booking such criminals under the Goondas Act have met with lacklustre response from the authorities. Proposals submitted by the police to book 10 such criminals under the Goondas Act are still pending with the District Magistrate/ Collector. Claiming that the detention orders issued against five criminals by the DM were withdrawn before the relevant files were sent to the LG for approval, he alleged that people at the helm of affairs have intervened in favour of the anti-socials.Kannan also urged the LG to address the inordinate delay in disbursement of relief to those affected by the cyclone and to reinstate the retrenched employees in various departments.
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