Police personnel injured in stone pelting near Madurai

A mob of over 200 persons pelted stones on a police team in which five police personnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, were injured and a few police vehicles, a fire tender and an ambulance were damaged near Melur in Madurai in the early hours of Tuesday. The police party, led by Additional Superintendent of Police, S. Vanitha, had rushed to Vellalapattipudur, under the Kottampatti police station limits, past Monday midnight, when they received information about the installation of a statue of Muthuramalinga Thevar without permission. Local residents had installed the five-foot high cement statue near the village ground, late in the night.