Observing that the police can only arrest people for infraction of laws and certainly cannot assault the arrested individuals, the Madras High Court, on Tuesday (September 2, 2025) appointed a one-man commission to probe into allegations of police excesses while quelling the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) conservancy workers’ protest outside the Ripon Building recently.
A Division Bench of Justices M.S. Ramesh and V. Lakshminarayanan requested retired High Court judge V. Parthiban to act as a fact-finding, one-man commission to determine whether the police had assaulted the lawyers and law students who were providing legal assistance to the workers protesting against outsourcing of conservancy work in two zones.
