Lathi-charge, tear gas as 5,000 join Barsu protest

On a day a large group of women protesters attempted to storm the soil testing site for a proposed oil refinery project in Barsu village of Rajapur taluka on Friday afternoon, authorities were able to hold them back since they had kept themselves prepared for such an eventuality. A force of nearly 1,800 police personnel, a majority of them women, had been deployed at the site by the Ratnagiri police.

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