Puducherry, Apr 13 (UNI) Police resorted to a mild lathicharge to disperse a mob agitating in front of a private medical college on the Villippuram road near here on Saturday.
According to police, one Dhanasekeran of Kandamangalam (Tamil Nadu) was brought to the Venkateswara Medical college following stomach pain on Friday night.
Investigations revealed that he is having stomach cancer and his relatives wanted to take him to the government hospital.
The medical college sent Dhanasekeran in their Ambulance to the government hospital today. However, he died on the way to the GH.
Following this, the releatives brought the ambulance back to the medical college and organized an agitation in front of it without allowing the body to be removed from the ambulance.
This caused hardship to the staffs of the medical college including doctors to enter the hospital.
Hearing the news, police rushed to the spot and held talks with the agitators.
Since, they failed to respond, police used mild force and removed them.
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