S Mugilan disappeared after releasing video footage showing police had escalated the situation
New Dehli — An Indian activist who released a video critical of the police shooting of protesters at Vedanta’s south Indian copper smelter in May, which killed 13 and injured many others, has been missing for 10 days, a lawyer and fellow activists said.
Reuters was not able to independently verify his allegations. The office of the Tamil Nadu police chief did not immediately respond on Tuesday to a request seeking comment on Mugilan’s allegations.Activist Sridhar Nedunchezhian said he last spoke to his friend on February 15, when Mugilan said he planned to board a train to Madurai at 11.50pm from Chennai’s Egmore railway station.
“I don’t understand how the police have not been able to find out anything despite all the CCTV cameras and the police officials there,” he said.AK Viswanathan, police commissioner for Chennai, said railway police were investigating Mugilan’s disappearance. The Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, which rules the state and was widely criticised for the police action against the protesters, recently struck a coalition deal with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party to contest the general election due by May.
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