Attack in Dinakaran office
We were out of station yesterday and coming back to Madurai by afternoon. We are entering into Madurai from south (via Tirupparankundram) and all seemed normal. We were cautioned by relatives (via mobile) that splash news on TVs talk about attacks all over Madurai.
But we couldn’t find any thing abnormal. All the town buses and mofussil buses continue to ply from Madurai as usual. When we reached home, neighbours said that cable TV went off the air from 11 a.m. onwards.
I gathered the news from Dinamalar’s website. All actions seem to be on the northern fringe of city. Dinakaran’s (Sun network) new office building is at Uthangudi, some 3 kms away from city. It used to be a Mitsubishi (Lancer) car showroom. The Madurai bench of Madras High Court is still further away on that (NH47 – towards Trichy, Chennai) road.
Later we came to know that some buses in Aarapalayam bus stand were also damaged in stone pelting. All local cables got their feeds from SCV, a Sun network company that seems to have their vital equipment in the same campus, and hence the entire city went cable-less, except for those who had DishTV or TataSKY. Cable TVs resumed today and viewed all the details on Sun News which keeps on repeating it.
That’s about it. It’s very sad that computer operators and a private security were killed. It’s a power play within a dynasty and innocent chaps get killed in the crossfire. So much for their intention to serve the public.
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