“Urge Sri Lankan Government to release the 4 Tamil doctors”

THANJAVUR: Medical college students and doctors here organised a human chain on Gandhiji Road on Wednesday appealing to the Central Government to urge Sri Lankan Government to release four Tamil doctors arrested by the Lankan police “just because they gave treatment to wounded Sri Lankan Tamils during the recent war.”

The doctors in custody are Thambimuthu Sathyamurthy, Durairaja Vasantha Raja, Veerakathi Shanmugha Raja and Ilanchezhiya Pallavan. 

R. Venkateswaran, students chairman, Vijay Pandiyan, secretary, Prathiba and Preethi led the agitation. S. R. Marududurai, Professor, Thanjavur Medical College, inaugurated the human chain. Thanjai Ramamurthy, senior advocate, D. Mathivanan, General secretary of Transport Corporation Employees Union, offered felicitations.