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12 sanitary workers detained as hunger strike against privatisation continues
The New Indian Express
|September 11, 2025
THE hunger strike by 12 sanitary workers demanding regularisation of jobs and a designated protest site entered third day on Wednesday. Police detained them again, this time near the Labour Statue at Marina Beach.
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A group of 27 workers, including those who came to record the protest and check on the condition of the detainees near the Bharat Ratna Kamarajar Thirumana Mandapam in Alandur, were also taken into custody.
Protesters alleged that police used force during the detention, including beatings to the knees.
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