Tamil Nadu CM Stalin says no compromise on dignity of workers as Opposition slams DMK govt. for midnight detention
The Madras High Court on Thursday (August 14, 2025) ordered the release of four lawyers and two law students arrested by the Greater Chennai city police in connection with the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) conservancy workers’ protests outside the Rippon Building.
A Division Bench of Justices M.S. Ramesh and V. Lakshminarayanan ordered the release of advocates K. Bharathi, K. Suresh, Mohan Babu and R. Raj Kumar and law students Muthuselvan and Valarmathi on condition that they should not give interviews to the media.
On Wednesday (August 13, 2025), the police detained conservancy workers of the Greater Chennai Corporation, who have been staging a protest for the past 13 days demanding that privatisation of conservancy operations be dropped in two zones of the city.
Reacting to the issue, Mr. Stalin, wrote on X that the DMK government would never compromise on the dignity of conservancy workers and that it a government that always stands with and for the common people.
