Tamil Nadu Police seeks Interpol help

To crackdown LTTE's terrorist activities
 

By Our Defence Correspondent

The Tamil Nadu police has sought the assistance of the Interpol to crackdown on LTTE activities in the State and also to block financial assistance channelled to the outfit secretly from foreign countries, reports from Chennai said.

Nathan alias Thambithurai who is believed to be a LTTE spy was taken into custody with seven others by the Intelligence Unit of the Tamil Nadu police at Medawakam in Chennai, two days ago.

The police team headed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police Shankar Pandiyan also seized materials used to make bombs at the house where the suspects were hiding, reports added.

The investigators have found that the main suspect Nathan had arrived in Tamil Nadu on April 7 last year and registered himself with the Madipakam police station in Chennai on April 20 as a refugee from Sri Lanka and obtained a passport under the name of Edwin Kamalanathan.

In the meantime another LTTE suspect called Karuppiah who was detained at the Madurai Central prison, also went underground when he was released on bail recently. The police had found that he had later changed his name as Cadalfi and was involved in covert activities of collecting money for clandestine activities of the LTTE cadres in Tamil Nadu.

The Tamil Nadu police have found that Cadalfi was the person behind all the illegal activities of the LTTE in Tamil Nadu and was responsible for handling the financial network of the outfit internationally.

Following these startling revelations of LTTE operations in Tamil Nadu, the State police hierarchy have sought the assistance of the Interpol to put a check on the outfit's activities in the State as well as its connections abroad.

Following the arrests of prime LTTE suspects in Chennai two days ago the camps housing Lankan refugees have come under a thorough search by the Tamil Nadu police and security arrangements have also been beefed up in the camp areas to keep an eye on notorious ones seeking refuge, reports further added.