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Students picket road
Staff Reporter
| Demand a speed-breaker near school zone |
AGITATION: School students picketing the Dindigul-Natham Road at Ponagaram near Dindigul on Wednesday.
DINDIGUL: Students of a matriculation school picketed the Natham-Dindigul main road here on Wednesday.
They demanded a speed-breaker near the school zone. The students resorted to the picketing as a car proceeding to Dindigul from Natham knocked down an eight-year-old boy in front of the school and sped away.
They told the police that vehicles were going at a great speed posing a grave threat to schoolchildren.
Immediate steps must be taken to control speed of the vehicles either by laying rumbling strips or installing a barricade in front of their school.
The injured Raju, third class student of a middle school at Palamarathupatti, was admitted to the Government Hospital for treatment.
Acting on information, Sub-Inspector Jasmine Mumtaz, who was on duty near the Nagal Nagar Bridge, tried to block the car that hit the boy. The driver did not stop it. After a hot chase in the interior roads of the town, she, at last, caught the driver and seized the car. A case has been registered.
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