As part of State-wide crackdown on the protesting students and public seeking a permanent solution to the Jallikattu issue, police today forcibly evicted the protesters from VOC Park Grounds here, where they were agitating for the last six days.

As the appeal made by senior officials to clear the grounds failed, police in large numbers started to bodily lift them and shift out of the venue. However, they returned to the grounds.

To prevent the removal and arrest, the protesters were heard chanting ‘Vande Matharam’.

Women police were seen taking the women agitators, some elderly and some with babies in their arms, out of the grounds, despite them appealing with folded hands not to disturb the peaceful and apolitical agitation to keep
high the Tamil pride and cultural identity.

Even as some protesters were seen leaving the venue voluntarily, police removed nearly 300 protesters from there.

Protesting against the police action, some youth formed human chain on the main Avinashi Road and police made a mild cane charge to disperse them.

A section of the protesters raised slogans demanding a permanent solution to Jallikattu. They also raised slogans against PETA and Police near the Central Jail some 200 metres away from the venue, prompting the police to arrest nearly 300 persons.

The grounds – venue for the Republic Day celebrations – is clear now and under the full control of district administration and police, said police.