Police
personnel reached the village in large numbers and removed by force the
villagers who are opposing the shifting of dumping yard from Anakapalle
to their village.

After they removed the men,
including general secretary of AP Vyavasaya Vrittidarula Union P.S. Ajay
Kumar, the police personnel pulled out the women from their homes and
took them to Anakapalle rural, Kasimkota, Sabbavaram and Munagapaka
police stations, according to reports reaching here. Only children, who
joined the protest with their parents in the morning, were left in the
village. About 100 people, who took out a protest rally at Krishnapuram
against the illegal dumping of garbage at Achayyapeta, were allegedly
lathicharged.

The villagers argued that an order
passed by a Division Bench of the High Court on a petition filed against
three municipalities, barring municipalities from dumping garbage
outside their municipal limits, is meant for the entire State. They also
said neither the villagers gave their consent to the dumping yard nor
the dumping yard received permission from the AP Pollution Control
Board.

In the afternoon all women, except wife of Mr.
Ajay Kumar P.S. Kotamma and Lovamma, who were detained at different
police stations, were taken to Kasimkota police station. It was learnt
that a close associate of Minister for Infrastructure and Investments
Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Paruchuri Bhaskara Rao was rebuked when he offered
to get them released on bail if they stopped protesting against dumping
yard in their village. Later, all the women were released on personal
bonds.

Their release was presumably due to a civil
rights activist Jeshwin of Hyderabad calling Collector V. Sheshadri on
people’s protest against the dumping yard and pointing out that even
women were taken into custody.

The villagers were still of the opinion that the Collector was not properly briefed about the issue by local officials.

mping yard site at Achayyapeta village near Anakapalle.