Chennai, May 23: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan was booked by Tamil Nadu police on Wednesday for violating the probationary orders in the violence-hit Tuticorin region.

An FIR was registered against Haasan, along with 20 members of his outfit Makkal Needhi Maiam, for breaching Section 144 CrPC -- which bars the gathering of four or more people.

Haasan and his supporters visited the hospital in Tuticorin where the anti-Sterilite protesters, injured in police action on Tuesday, are being treated.

Speaking to reporters outside the hospital, Haasan said he would take the agitation to Chennai as well and seek accountability from the AIADMK government.

"We must know who ordered this firing. It is not me but the victims who are demanding this. Merely announcing compensation is not a solution," Haasan said, adding that Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami should resign on moral grounds.

In the police-firing on Tuesday, 11 protesters lost their lives and more than a dozen were left injured. CM Palaniswami has ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident.

The prime Opposition, DMK, has sought his immediate resignation from the post. "This Chief Minister is responsible for something as worse as the Jallianwala Bagh incident," said party's de facto chief MK Stalin.

The Congress, meanwhile, targeted the Centre apart from the state government for the death of protesters. "This government is acting on behalf of the BJP-RSS. The people of Tamil Nadu will not allow their ideology to be murdered by the RSS," party president Rahul Gandhi said.

The protests in the port city of Tuticorin broke out after Sterlite Industries - the majority-owned subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta - announced it would double the amount of copper smelted at its Tuticorin unit from April this year.

The increase in copper smelting, locals and civic activists claim, would not only create pollution but cause an irreparable damage to the groundwater resources.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on May 23, 2018 02:43 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).