A 23-year-old woman techie riding a two-wheeler was run over by a water tanker as she lost balance and fell down after an illegal hoarding put up by a ruling AIADMK functionary crashed down on her on an arterial suburban road here, police said.
The AIADMK and main opposition DMK, meanwhile, asked their party cadres not to erect hoardings, inconveniencing the general public.
Other parties, including the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam also aired the same view and asked their cadres to desist from the practice.
The Madras High Court, hearing a plea on the matter on Friday, took a tough stand against illegal hoardings and wondered "how many more litres of blood the state government needs to paint the roads with."
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