Thoothukudi: A petrol bomb was hurled near the main entrance of the private copper smelting plant, Sterlite in Thoothukudi on Wednesday midnight.
Registering a case under three sections that include section 3 of the Indian explosive substances act, Sipcot police, under whose jurisdiction the copper smelting company falls, said that a case was registered based on the complaint of S Paramasivam (54), security guard on duty at the time when the bomb was hurled. It was reported that two youths came in a motorcycle at around 11.55 pm on Wednesday, committed the office and fled the spot before security personnel arrived.
Though no one was injured and no damage was reported, the petrol bomb attack has been viewed seriously by police, who suspect the hands of some radical youth elements pivoting the anti-Sterlite movement in the attack.
According to official sources from the company this might be a strategy to create panic among workers as a few weeks ago, the anti-Sterlite activists pelted stones at two Sterlite company vehicles, damaging them and injuring some family members of Sterlite employees onboard the buses.
Anti-Sterlite activists however suspect it to be the handiwork of the company itself to portray the ongoing agitations against the company as violent.
