RAMANATHAPURAM
Q Branch police have quizzed a suspected militant of the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who was part of a gang, which indulged in unlawful activities in Tamil Nadu in 2015 in a bid to revive the organisation.
Q Branch police officials said C. Kumar alias Murugan alias Udyakumar, 37, hailing from Kilinochchi in the northern province of Sri Lanka, was part of a group of LTTE supporters, who procured cyanide capsules and other equipment.
The district police arrested K. Krishnakumar, 42, his accomplice V. Subashkaran, 41, and others when they attempted to clandestinely flee to Sri Lanka with 600 gms of cyanide powder, 75 cyanide capsules, four GPS sets, seven mobile phones and Indian and Sri Lankan currency notes in July 2015. But Kumar, who was part of the gang, went absconding.
He had been absconding for more than two years and the Q Branch police, acting on specific information, arrested him at Kaliyakkavilai in Kanniyakumari district in October 2017. Then, he was remanded in judicial custody in Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai.
After securing his custody, the Q Branch police interrogated him here on Monday and Tuesday and found that he was shuffling between Madurai, Tiruchi and Chennai. Interrogation also revealed that he clandestinely went to Sri Lanka from Thondi in April 2017 and returned to Rameswaram in July 2017.
While staying in Madurai, he secured a SIM card, providing fake address, and a fake PAN card while in Chennai. The accused had worked as a tailor in Chennai and in a bakery in Tiruchi. He also received money from Sri Lankan Tamils living in France and Switzerland, the police said.
The accused had arrived in Chennai in 2014 with a valid passport and went underground after he was booked for unlawful activities. His brief visit to Sri Lanka was also part of the plan to revive the LTTE. One Sri, an accomplice of the accused and a part of the gang, was still at large, the police said.
Two of his accomplices, arrested in 2015, were convicted and awarded 10 years’ imprisonment, and the case relating to the accused was being tried separately at the Sessions Court here, the police said, adding the case would come up for hearing on September 27. Kumar was arrested under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Passport Act and the Foreigners Act, the police said.
