KUDANKULAM, May 11, 2012
The police are preparing a list of passport holders who are taking part in the agitation against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project without police permission for the past nine months, to be submitted to the Office of Regional Passport Officer “since cases are pending against them.”
The police suspected that good number of people from the ‘protest region' holding passports was actively taking part in the ongoing protests without police permission and they might leave for their workplaces abroad after “instigating” protests against the project.
Since participating in the agitations without police permission was an unlawful activity as per law, cases had been registered against them also. Subsequently, the names of these passport holders were being listed out by the police now to be sent to the Regional Passport Officer.
“Once the list is ready, it will be forwarded to the Regional Passport Officer for further appropriate action within a day or two,” said a senior police officer here.
On receiving the list from the police, the Regional Passport Officer may ask the ‘tainted passport-holders' to surrender their travel document within a particular date.
A top revenue official said if the protesters chose to surrender their Electors' Photo Identity Cards as part of their ongoing anti-KKNPP agitations, then the officials of Department of Public Distribution System would be instructed to suspend the family cards of those who had surrendered the EPIC. “Those who surrender the EPIC will not be able to get essential commodities from ration shops,” he said.