Major clash averted

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, FEB. 23. A major clash between the students of a college in Royapettah and MTC checking squad was averted by the timely intervention of police at P.Orr and Sons bus stop on Anna Salai on Friday.

A three-member MTC checking squad, led by Mr. Thiruvengadam, was checking the buses at the stop around 12-30 p.m. They boarded a 5-C bus (Adyar-Parrys) and allegedly found a student travelling in the bus without a ticket. The squad members scolded the students in abusive language, said a group of students, who came to the spot after being informed about the problem. Within a short period, about 20 students from the college arrived at the spot in their vehicles, demanding an apology from the MTC crew.

On seeing the student crowd swelling, the squad members quietly boarded a Parrys-bound MTC and asked the driver to move. The students blocked the movement of the bus from the place by parking their vehicles in front of it.

A police team which was passing by stopped and intervened. They pacified the students and asked the squad members to get into the waiting police jeep.

When this reporter asked the squad members about the incident, they refused to reply and Mr. Thiruvengadam said it was not their team which checked the students in the 5-C bus.

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