From checkposts and automobile checks to calls from the police, Parandur residents allege the police is clamping down on any opposition to the Chennai airport undertaking. As concern of protests looms massive, police have stepped up safety on the proposed web site for Chennai’s second airport. Residents of Parandur allege that there was a rise in police deployment throughout 13 villages, with new checkposts arising. Over the previous few days, patrolling has intensified and the presence of police personnel each in uniform and civilian garments within the space.  When TNM visited Parandur on Tuesday, August 30, this reporter was stopped at certainly one of  the checkpoints in Ekanapuram. Equally, a number of police checkpoints have been arrange in and round Parandur – placing anybody who's getting into the world underneath the police radar. One of many villagers requested TNM, “How did you handle to enter the village? There are a number of police checkposts in any respect entry and exit factors to the village.”   At Ponnerikarai, Parandur Hospital, Eganapuram, Kannanthangal and Edayarpakkam areas in Parandur, new checkposts have been arrange by the police. TNM spoke to one of many villagers who spoke to us underneath the situation of anonymity and stated, “We really feel that we've got been surrounded by the police. Verify posts and barricades have been put up in numerous locations. In our village the police should not stopping or stopping anybody from getting into our village. However police patrolling has elevated in our space,” he added.    TNM’s final go to to Parandur on August 12 hardly raised eyebrows – residents spoke with out concern of being questioned by the police. Nevertheless, on August 30, many residents had been unwilling to talk with reporters and instructed TNM that police are maintaining a tally of people who find themselves towards the undertaking and police had even detained some villagers lately.   Additionally Learn: ‘Nobody instructed us we'll lose our land’: Parandur residents protest Chennai airport plan A political occasion employee who belongs to Parandur stated “police personnel have been deployed at numerous locations within the village and on the primary day they needed the locals to rearrange for an lodging for the police personnel.”  Residents stated the police are enquiring about individuals who enter the village and those that are in contact with the media. “We acquired ‘pleasant’ calls from the native police station saying, do not protest towards the Parandur undertaking and do not enable or encourage outsiders to get entangled on this matter", says a resident of Nagapattu in Parandur. He added that the district administration has ready a listing of 20-25 outstanding people who find themselves opposing the undertaking and their actions can be monitored.  Whereas the Tamil Nadu authorities has promised that residents won't be harassed and a good compensation bundle can be given to them for his or her lands, a bit of individuals have raised a banner of protest towards the proposed second airport undertaking. The world additionally witnessed elevated political exercise with leaders like PMK President Anbumani Ramadoss, Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) chief Seeman visiting Parandur to fulfill residents. On Tuesday, August 30, Social Democratic Get together of India (SDPI) cadres had been detained and brought into preventive custody by the police after they tried to enter Parandur. The police operations in Parandur have been led by Kancheepuram Superintendent of Police Dr M Sudhakar, who's on the bottom. Watch: Chennai second airport, we'll win over the folks: TN Minister Thangam Thennarasu  [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YsGk3uSJPE[/embed] On Sunday, August 28, the Kancheepuram police detained two activists Pananiappan and Gunsekara Dharmaraja belonging to Motion Towards 8-Lane Approach, that protested towards the Salem-Chennai expressway undertaking introduced by the AIADMK regime. The 2 arrived at Kancheepuram by prepare and so they had been stopped on the railway station and picked up by the police. "We met a couple of farmers in Parandur final week. However this time we weren't heading to Parandur, we visited Kancheepuram for another work, however the police detained us," stated Palaniyappan who's the Coordinator of Motion Towards 8-lane means. Palaniappan additionally added that his colleague Gunasekaran was manhandled by the police when he tried to tell his relations and attorneys about his detention. The police additionally needed us to signal an enterprise however we refused to take action, “The police requested us to signal a letter stating that we are going to not go to Parandur village and meet farmers anymore, however we refused to take action. After spending a while within the police station, we had been requested to go away," he added.  Fearing massive scale mobilisation, the Kancheepuram police has invoked Part 30(2) of the Police Act  from August 24 to the following 15 days. As per the part, prior permission is required from the police to conduct conferences, processions and occasions. Kancheepuram SP Dr M Sudhakar, nevertheless, denied that autos had been being checked or that the police was making an attempt to quell protests. "All these measures are taken as part of legislation and order protocol. We aren't stopping anybody from protesting as a result of there aren't any protests going down right here.”  Nevertheless, residents of Parandur have been instructed that these measures are put in place as a part of Vinayaga Chaturthi bandobast, "We have fun Vinayagar Chaturthi yearly, however we by no means heard of part 30(2) invoked in our village.” stated one resident. TNM tried to achieve Kancheepuram Collector Aarthi for her feedback on the claims made by the villagers however our calls went unanswered.  Watch: Chennai’s second airport leaves Parandur residents anxious over their destiny [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJGuPcriYI[/embed] On August 15, India’s seventy fifth Independence Day, the residents of Parandur got here collectively and adopted a decision towards the proposed airport undertaking. Nevertheless, the Tamil Nadu authorities says that they'll win over the folks of Parandur and make sure the easy implementation of the undertaking. 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