| Chennai, Dec 20: The Madras High Court today directed Tamil Nadu police to provide all necessary medical aid to five Maoists who were arrested in Theni district. A division bench comprising Justice P D Dinakaran and Justice R Regupathy gave the directive on a habeas corpus petition filed by Haribabu, an advocate from Salem, seeking to produce Murugananthan, Mahalingam, Maruthu, Balamurugan and Lokesh before the court. When the petition came up for hearing, Advocate Sankarasubbu, appearing for the petitioner, sought a direction to provide medical aid to the detenus and give permission to advocates to meet them. The bench said, "We are of the considered opinion that immediate medical aid was more necessary than permitting the advocates to get instructions." "Hence the State Home Secretary, DGP, Additional DGP, Superintendent of Police, Theni, are directed to provide all necessary medical aid to the detenus immediately as deemed fit by the medical officer. Judicial magistrate, Andipatti, is directed to oversee the medical treatment that would be given to the detenus," the bench said. In his petition, Haribabu alleged the five were shot at from a close range. Five of them were nabbed by police after an exchange of fire in Varushanadu, near Theni, yesterday. Two of them have been remanded to custody while three others were hospitalised. (Agencies) |
Friday, December 21, 2007
Tamil Nadu:Give medical aid to Maoists: HC
“Activities of naxalites, maoists under check in Tamil Nadu”
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Thursday said that the government was able to ensure that "no major disturbance is caused to public order and tranquility in the State."
In his speech read out by the PWD Minister Durai Murugan at the conference of Chief Ministers on internal security, Mr. Karunanidhi said: "The recent success we have had in apprehending certain dreaded Maoists and our constant and effective vigil of the coast line, in coordination with the Coast Guard and the navy have encouraged the State Police to function even more effectively."
He said: "Tamil nadu is one of the few States with a separate 'Q' wing in the intelligence set up to monitor the activities of extremist organisations. The effective system of information gathering developed by this wing, has helped the State to keep activities of naxalites, Maoists, other fundamentalist groups under check."
Mr. Karunanidhi said the State was equipped to tackle instances of hijacking, armed militancy, insurgency and kidnapping of VIPs for ransom.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
5 suspected Maoists held in Tamil Nadu
Four of them hail from Tamil Nadu
Team acted on tip-off from students
THENI/CHENNAI: A special team comprising Special Task Force and police personnel arrested five suspected Maoists after a 45-minute gun battle on Varusanadu Hills in Theni district on Wednesday.
Three extremists and some police personnel were injured in the operation. Police sources said the team seized weapons from them.
The arrested were Mahalingam of Tirupattur in Vellore district, Marudhu alias Lenin of Manamadurai, Muruganandham of Vriddachalam, Sachin alias Yogesh of Chhattisgarh and Maran alias Balamurugan of Sellur in Madurai district. Mahalingam, Marudhu and Muruganandham, who received bullet injuries, were admitted to the Theni Government Medical College Hospital at Andipatti for treatment.
The Inspector-General of Police (South zone), Sanjeev Kumar and Deputy Inspector-General of Police R. Krishnamoorthy and Superintendent of Police (STF) Pon. Manickavel came to the hospital and conducted an inquiry.
Superintendent of Police R. Sudhakar said the gang led by Mahalingam had opened fire on the police and the STF team retaliated quickly. "Within 45 minutes, we surrounded them," he said. Acting on a tip-off from school students, the team had been camping on Varusanadu Hills for the past one week and intensified search operation. Mr. Manickavel said the team had done its job.
Once again, the information provided by the public prompted the police to look out for naxalites. Director-General of Police P. Rajendran said that nearly 10 days ago, the public had informed the police about the movements of some persons who were carrying arms and distributing pamphlets. Suspecting something serious, the police launched a hunt in Varusanadu Hill areas in Theni district. In June this year, following information from the public, the police arrested three persons when they were attempting to start a naxalite training camp in Murugan Malai near Periyakulam.
Mr. Rajendran said only during the interrogation of the five would details regarding their place of stay and duration and their contacts would be known. The police might move court seeking police custody of the arrested persons. He said the Tamil Nadu 'Q' branch was in constant touch with the unit concerned in the neighbouring States and shared information as part of the anti-naxalite operations.
He said Nondi Palani alias Mahalingam was wanted in connection with a case of double murder in the Koodapattu police station limits in Vellore district in 1978 and had been absconding for the past 29 years. Arms, ammunition and explosive material were seized from the arrested persons.
Explosives seized from Naxals in TN
Madurai, Dec 20: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke of eliminating the Naxal "virus' today, four tiffin box-type mines and an equal number of country-made pistols and hand grenades, explosive chemicals and detonators were recovered from the five Maoists arrested during a police encounter.
The items seized from the Maoists including sulphur and pottassium chlorate chemicals were secured and deposited in a safe place, officials said, adding Naxalite literature and pamphlets distributed by them have already been recovered.
Top police officials visited the three Maoists, injured in an exchange of fire with police and convalescing in the Government Rajaji Hospital
here after surgery to remove the bullets from their bodies.
The condition of the injured, operated last night, was stated to be stable, police said.
Three Maoists and two policemen were injured in the exchange of fire at Pallathur in Varushanadu, near Theni, yesterday.The policemen were injured when the maoists resisted arrest, leading to an exchange of fire.
The five Maoists were moving around in villages in the area when they were challenged and arrested. Two of them were remanded to custody while three were hospitalised.
Talking to mediapersons, IG (South Zone) Sanjeev Kumar said they were able to arrest the Naxalites only because of the cooperation extended by the public in general.
Officials said the three had shouted pro-Maoist slogans even when the police brought them to the hospital, suggesting they were hardcore Naxalites.
Mahalingam (52) was injured in the the left shoulder while Maruthu alias Lenin Kumar's (27) left knee was pierced by the bullet. Murugananthan (25) suffered injuries in the stomach, officials said. Police officials said police came to know about the exact location of the Maoists through a farm worker grazing her cattle. She informed the people of Pudukottai, who, in turn informed the SP-CID. A police party, on reaching their hideout, asked the Maoists through the public address system to surrender.
But the Maoists, hiding in a sugarcane field at Pudukottai, near Varushnanadu, fired at the policemen, they said, adding police retaliated.
Police denied that it was an encounter, as alleged in a petition filed in the Madras High Court yesterday.
Two other Maoists, including Balamurugan (30) and Lokesh (31) of Chhattisgarh surrendered to the police.
Balamurugan and Lokesh were produced before the Andipatti magistrate and remanded to custody today.
Earlier, top police officials interrogated the extremists. Police said they had brought them to Madurai only because they felt that the Theni Government Hospital was not safe enough as it was a border district.
Police were confident that there were no more Maoist elements moving around in the hills bordering Kerala though search operations would continue in the area.
The Varushanadu area, a remote region bordering Kerala, witnessed a revival of Naxalite activity in recent months, leading to deployment of extra police contingents to contain their activities. (Agencies)
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Naxals Arrested in Tamil Nadu, 3 injured
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In a first of its kind of operation, a Special Task Force (STF) in Tamil Nadu has captured five Naxals in the state after TIMES NOW reported increased Naxal activities in the state.
The Tamil Nadu Special Task Force (STF) managed to lay their hands on the group after a fierce gun battle that lasted for hours.
Three of the Maoists including the leader of the Naxal group have been seriously injured. The operation assumes significance because its the first time ever that reports of naxal activities have emerged from the state.
TIMES NOW had reported on the increase of Naxal activities in the state of Tamil Nadu after intelligence inputs had put the state police on alert.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Tamilnadu: Police comb hills for suspected Maoists
MADURAI: Personnel of the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force (STF) have been combing the Megamalai Hills in Theni district for six suspected Maoists, after receiving information about their presence in Arugaveli village, located on the border of the hills.
The newcomers reportedly asked a farmer for directions to the Sundara Magalinga Hills, an important Saivite pilgrimage centre on Tuesday.Villagers inform that the group also distributed pamphlets encouraging school children to take up arms against capitalists.
On being informed of the events, South Zone IG Sanjeev Kumar and Dindigul Range DIG Krishnamoorthy conducted enquiries at the village. Subsequently, five STF teams, led by ADSP Tirunavukarusu, launched search operations along five routes, namely from the Pilavakkal dam to Jothi estate, Varusanadu to Pattupootchi and Varusanadu to Upputhurai, while a 30-member police team led by Theni SP R Sudhakar searched the villages in the valley, including Arugaveli and Atthuparai, on Wednesday. "The combing operation for the suspected Maoists will continue till the area is declared free of extremists," a highly-placed police officer said
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Three suspected Maoists arrested in Tamil Nadu
THENI: Three suspected armed Maoists, including a woman, were arrested from a remote illage in southern Tamil Nadu while they were distributing pamphlets and holding roadside meetings calling for an "armed struggle".
The trio was held on Tuesday after residents of Siraiparai village near Varushanaadu in this district complained that a group of five Maoists were calling upon locals to take up arms, police said.
A police party that rushed to the village arrested three of the extremists, but two others escaped.
The Maoists wore blue uniforms, carried weapons and reportedly moved freely in the district which bordered Kerala.
Police suspect the trio belongs to a banned Maoist outfit, which is trying to revive its activities in the state.
The pamphlets distributed by them advised farm labourers "not to carry spade and crow bar if they really wanted to enjoy the fruits of their hard work".
In view of the increasing activity of Maoists, more than 100 police personnel from the striking force, bomb disposal wing and special police have been deployed in the area.
A top Maoist leader from Andhra Pradesh and his wife were arrested in Chennai a few days ago.
Activities of Maoists had subsided in Tamil Nadu over a decade ago after an intense crackdown.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Living next door to Naxals, for 41 days
Saturday December 8 2007 07:53 IST
G SARAVANAN
MINJUR: Lakshmi, a 50-year-old woman living in the northern suburbs of Chennai, will now think twice before getting tenants.
In late October, she had let out a part of her house on Bhajanai Koil Street in Pungamedu locality, to a couple from Andhra Pradesh for a period of 45 days.
On the 41st day, however, it emerged that the couple — Pandu Ranga Reddy and his wife Mari alias Madhavi — were most-wanted Naxalites in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. They had rented the house saying the wife needed regular treatment in Chennai for her recurring stomach pain.
Last Wednesday morning, when the couple took a bus bound for the city, the Andhra Pradesh police intercepted it at Melur and arrested Pandu. The police, however, did not notice Madhavi and she was left behind in the bus. When she got back home, the village head and the local councillor, P Durai, took her to the police saying her husband had been kidnapped.
After initial inquiry, the police said they could not trace any incident of kidnapping that had taken place on that day, and sent them back. Around midnight on Wednesday, police surrounded the usually quiet Pungamedu locality.
Acting on a tip-off from the Andhra police, they arrested Madhavi and sent her to Puzhal prison. "It was the first time we had seen such a huge police presence, that too at midnight. People here usually don't let out their houses, but this couple managed because they said they were here for treatment," Durai told Express.
Kanmani, a teenager who lives next to Lakshmi, said, "Their activities were not suspicious, but her husband would go missing for a few days in a week."
Said Veeran, another resident: "Lakshmi is the only one in the area who can speak Telugu. Maybe that is why she let them stay, even against the wishes of her daughter and son-in-law."
It was because of the language barrier that people there hardly spoke — and got to know the couple.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Top Maoist leader Sagar held in Chennai
Special Correspondent
ONGOLE: A top Maoist leader, Panduranga Reddy alias Sagar alias Pratap, operating in Nallamala forest of Prakasam district, was arrested in Chennai on Wednesday.
Confirming the arrest, Superintendent of Police Mr. Naveen Chand said Sagar would be produced in a court on Thursday.
Acting on some vital clues, Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) officials reportedly laid the trap and arrested him in Chennai in the morning. Local police, however, said that they have no information about the arrest in Chennai.
According to reliable information available here, SIB officials arrested two persons at Kandukur Tuesday night, and got the information that led to the arrest of Sagar in Chennai. Interestingly, P. Srisailam, one of the two persons arrested at Kandukur was an electronic media journalist from Hyderabad.
Sagar (45), who hails from Lakshmipuram village of Ardhaveedu mandal in Prakasam district, joined the extremist movement some 15 years ago. He rose to become Secretary of Nallamala Forest Divisional Committee (NFDC) operating in Prakasam district. He played a key role in almost all incidents that took place in the district like murders, destruction of property etc. After Maoists blasted a landmine in the heart of Ongole town targeting the then SP Mahesh Chandra Laddha in 2005, police tightened the leash on the extremist movement.
In quick succession, all the five leaders who participated in the landmine blast, were killed by police in different encounters.
The entire family of Sagar was dedicated to the movement. His mother, Lakshmamma was killed by police in an encounter. His sister, Bhulakshmi, was also a dalam member. While police state that she ran away with huge cash, Maoists claim that she was also killed in an encounter. His another sister, Ramulamma alias Padma, is still active in the movement and works as NFDC district committee member.
Meanwhile, the police have arrested the journalist and booked a case against him under the Public Security Act.
http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/06/stories/2007120654320100.htm
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
TamilNadu:Maoist leader shouts slogans against Sethu project
Madurai (PTI): A top Maoist leader in Tamil Nadu, who was arrested in July, has raised his voice against the Sethusamudram ship canal project, saying it will affect the livelyhood of lakhs of fishermen.
Sundaramurthy shouted slogans against the project when he was produced before a Magistrate's court in Periyakulam in Theni district on Monday evening.
"We will oppose it (the sethu project)... It will affect livelyhood of 15 lakh fishermen," he said.
Meanwhile, the magistrate extended till October 22 the remand of Sundaramurthy, who was arrested at Marugamalai in Theni district on July 9.
Other extremists including Velmurugan, Karthi, Balakrishnan, Muthuselvam and Palanivelu were also produced before the magistrate and remanded.
The magistrate did not accept their request to transfer them to Madurai jail from Tiruchirapalli.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Revolution – better delayed than destroyed!
Recently we, the blog authors of springthunder posted a translation of an article titled, 'What threatens the State: Arms or Ideology?' from Puthiya Jananayagam (PUJA), a Tamil Marxist-Leninist monthly, on the Periyakulam fiasco of Maoists in Tamilnadu. We are thankful to maoist resistance for publishing it in their blog. Comrade Govindan Kutty, Editor of 'People's March' has come up with a 'reply' titled 'Why revolution is delayed?', which he sent to maoist resistance and posted in peoples march blog. Puthiya Kalacharam forwarded his reply to us which they received by mail.
He starts his reply saying,
Serious political / ideological thought is a fundamental need for the success of any revolution. This must not remain confined in limited circles but need to be carried deep amongst the masses, primarily amongst its advanced sections.
But alas, after such an introduction, the remarks follow can hardly be called as a reply or a serious political/ideological thought. We wonder how Comrade Govindan Kutty (GK), an editor of a revolutionary magazine got himself satisfied with such a bad reply. Probably that's why he added a disclaimer saying his views are personal and in no way connected with any revolutionary party or magazine the editor supports. How an editor of a revolutionary magazine can own or disown his statements as personal in a public spectrum like a bourgeoisie politician? We find it meaningless and unnecessary. Let it be aside.
We don't want to give such formal disclaimers, but we would like to say that as mentioned in our blog's about us section, this blog is an unofficial initiative. Hence the reply we provide here is as per our level of understanding of our party's political line. It may have shortcomings but certainly will not have any major or basic contradiction. We request the readers to point out the shortcomings, if any.
His so-called reply or in real, some scattered passing comments are a sheer display of seething anger and it's quite evident that he has not analysed the article in an approach of criticism and self-criticism. His scattered remarks show that he didn't understood or even tried to understand, the quintessence of the criticism but was so preoccupied to oppose it that at several places, his remarks reach the heights of absurdity.
Let we cite his lines. Our article counters the ruling class propaganda ( 'Naxalites are disenchanted individuals') by asking,
If one has to buy that argument, all those disenchanted one lakh farmers should have become Naxals and would not have killed themselves.
Comrade GK's remark found below this line is,
Maoists have repeatedly advised the farmers in distress not to commit suicide. Don't kill yourselves. Fight against the system that was responsible for your miseries militantly.
Does any logic sounds here for saying this?Again at a point, our article questions the so-called mass support enjoyed by the Maoists in Andhra.
"Why the lakhs of people organized during the talks with Rajashekhara Reddy, did not organise against the fake encounters that followed it?", "how was it possible for George Bush to visit Andhra without any stiff resistance from people where Maoists claim to have strong support?", and "how come it became possible for the rulers of Andhra to carry on with their pursuit of implementing neo-liberal policies ahead of other states and in such a situation why there are no significant mass movements like Nandigram?".
It further goes saying,
Maoists find peace at simple formulas for these questions by saying that due to the repression, people are unable to organize and they are ready otherwise. But the countless political uprisings throughout the history or the ones that took place in front our eyes in Kashmir, Manipur or in recently in Nandigram, (may be of whatever leadership) but these mass struggles erupting out challenging the brutal repressions doesn't seem to open the eyes of Maoists. It's because of their pure military outlook which doesn't cares about the people's initiative and they care about the mass support only from the perspective of supporting their armed actions.
His remark given for this paragraph highlighting the word Nandigram is astonishing.
Wherever there are people's struggles ….be it Singur, Nandigram, Mudigonda Maoists will be there with the struggling people.
Was that any mantra chanted accidentally??? Was that a reply?
These both lines show how he has totally gone out of the context and how prejudice had blind him. It's again a clear example of what mentioned in our article on how Maoists take up political criticism. They think in a classical adventurist way like, "We fight and we sacrifice. What's your problem?"
That's way, he says,
You admit that you cannot fight like Maoists and you cannot sacrifice like Maoists. Then what Maoists are saying is correct.
How many of your views have sacrificed their personal pleasures of life for the sake of masses. Do you wish to be called as naxalites upholding the traditions of Naxalbari or was there a demarcation between you and the Maoists.
So body count is the yardstick to measure a political line? Can we say Al-Umma's politics is right since because it lost many cadres in fake encounters and many languishing in jails for years in Tamilnadu than both of us? Or even in the current national or International scenario, Muslim fundamentalists sacrifice their life in large numbers than Maoists. Does sacrifice or body count clears all political flaws? Narodniks sacrificed their lives and suffered repression much more than Bolsheviks in Russia. Do you want to say Narodniks are right? Is the 'license' to uphold the traditions of Naxalbari rests on guns and being uncritical? The significance of Naxalbari doesn't lies on arms but on the revolutionary political line which broke the revisionist shackles, clearing the basic political and ideological issues of our country, with indomitable spirit and courage. We very well possess them.
Comrade GK has twice mentioned that we are for 'political preparations'. We humbly like to say that we have conducted various mass political movements than any other M-L group all over India since the last decade. Starting from the movement to enter sanctum sanctorum, demolishing prawn firms, teak farm demolition, movement to confiscate the properties of Jayalalitha gang capturing the Vinodhagan hospital, Movement against the instant rich political rogues of all party hues, against caste atrocities, unrelenting fight against the Brahminic fascism, street battles with saffron hoodlums, massive popular movement against Coke plant, the recent movement against Reliance Fresh outlets etc., Other than that, we have conducted several local struggles in various parts of Tamilnadu. Several comrades detained under TADA and even under NSA. We were announced as the principal enemy by the Sangh Parivar in Tamilnadu. We have effectively handled lawful and unlawful methods in our struggles and we steadfastly fight in our mass line with an understanding of tactics and strategy. At the same time we know that we have a long way to go. But if all these struggles seem to be mere 'political preparations' for you, then there is no remedy for that myopia.
When we question the level of political consciousness of the mass support enjoyed in Andhra and Dandakaranya, without getting the question, he cites a 2004 BBC Video. Does the political consciousness of the people lies in numbers? Then, CPI (M) can claim itself a bigger revolutionary organisation than all of us. He cites Veerapan for sustaining the armed struggle. Why Veerapan alone, learn from Sambal dacoits also. Be it Veerapan or other criminals, they were able to sustain only because of their Robin Hood postures and a constant support from a section of the ruling class. This is where the crux of our criticism lies. That's why we say in PUJA article,
The duty of communists is to engage people in revolution and to lead them and not to enact revolution on behalf of them.
It's because of their pure military outlook which doesn't care about the people's initiative and they care about the mass support only from the perspective of supporting their armed actions."
People are our ultimate strength and not some ammunitions or dense jungles. If we rely on masses and raise their political consciousness, then the enemy will find it tough to crush us as the masses will form the cordon around us. 'Annalus' lack this undertanding in practice and that's why they cite veerappan for 'armed struggle'. We repeat from the same article.
Revolution is not a personal scuffle between revolutionaries and ruling classes. But the self-styled left adventurism thinks of bestowing liberation to the people.
At the end he has announced us as enemies saying 'we are playing enemy's voice'. For years this has been the way of Maoists in dealing political criticisms. They view criticisms as attacks and no substantial answers ever come out other than a display of arrogance. We want to remind him that these 'enemies' were the ones who stood with Comrade Ravindran's wife in fighting the repressive police to acquire his body. It is the same Puthiya Jananayagam that exposed the fake encounter of Comrade Ravindran, rubbished the state propaganda in Oothangarai and if you are not frozen, the article under discussion is the only single voice in Tamilnadu that challenged the false propaganda spread by the Police on Periyakulam incident and carried it to the masses.
It's not a new charge. As noted in the article, after Comrade Ravindran's fake encounter, we criticized the left adventurist line and the mindless Andhra copying exercise without taking in to consideration of the subjective and objective conditions of Tamilnadu at the cost of the precious lives. Maoists (at that time, People's War Group) got infuriated on us and came up with a reply in their Tamil magazine 'Poraali' (Jan-Apr' 2000), displaying the same kind of anger and reluctance to analyse. In reply, PUJA came up with a booklet titled, 'Adventurism in search of shortcut' in October, 2000. Then there was no reply from them. Now after this Article of PUJA, they have come up with a reply in Tamil under an individual's name. We read that booklet also and it's not much different from Comrade GK's 'reply'. We hope an official reply would come soon from PUJA in Tamil.
In Seventies, CPI (M) branded both of us-naxalites, as CIA agents for all the merciless criticism put forwarded by us. Now Maoists show the same intolerance by branding us the same way, for the same reason. It's not an irony that left and right deviations merge at a same point.
Comrade GK says,
Setbacks, successes and failures, ups and downs, victories and defeats are quite common and are part and parcel of the ongoing revolution. Paris commune failed, the Great October revolution collapsed, the Chinese revolution failed. What is important is to study the causes for the failures/defeats and advance the revolution by learning lessons.
without uttering a word on what they have learnt from Periyakulam or from the consecutive debacles in Tamilnadu. Is self-criticism a secret activity to keep it yourself? It reminds us the reply PUJA gave in 'Adventurism in search of shortcut' which forms our end note.
When a comrade becomes a martyr, everything doesn't ends by pledging to avenge the death and swearing to achieve the goals with vigor. Even to achieve that pledge, we need to analyse the incident and learn from it by collecting the experiences. Revolutionaries cannot convince themselves by saying that these things are inevitable. Ofcourse the prime reason for the loss of Comrade Ravindran is the State and Police. But, the standpoint of Puthiya Jananayagam is, besides that, the left opportunist political line of CPI (M-L) PW is also a reason. Some time later PW may need to self-criticise for this. Like how it self-criticised for torching the Golconda Express with innocent people during Mandal agitation; Like how Thamizharasan wept bitterly for leading 27 people to death by planting bomb for Rockfort Express. But it will be too late. One thing must be said. We are pained to write these lines.
We leave it to the readers to decide on what they have learnt from the past other than repeating the same adventurist blunders at the cost of more and more precious lives. We again request Comrade GK and other Maoist comrades to analyse our criticisms in a critical and self-critical approach and to come up with a reply adhering to the Marxist-Leninist standards.
Thippu,
Authors Team
http://www.springthunder.wordpress.com
Sunday, September 16, 2007
What Threatens the State:Arms or Ideology?
Source: Spring Thunder
On June 25, Three Comrades of CPI (Maoist) namely Palanivel, Velmurugan and Muthamizh Selvan got arrested in Murugan Malai hills of Periyakulam, Tamilnadu. Police claimed to have seized rifles and grenades from them. It also said that some other comrades had fled the scene and published their photographs in media. On July 8, Police arrested Sundaramoorthy, Easwaran and Karthik in Tirupur and jailed them after interrogation.
The Q branch intelligence police conducted house raids in and around Madurai, a southern city of Tamilnadu in search of the escaped. The Super Cop Vijayakumar who 'valiantly' shot the corpse of Bandit Veerapan and 'captured' him leads the combing operation of the Special Task Force in Western Ghats.
"70-membered Armed Squads of 70 in numbers in Tamilnadu!"
"AK-47 Rifles in Periyakulam! Laptops and Grenades Seized! Arms dump uncovered!"
"600 Students to Join the Armed Squads!"
Some of the hysterical cries of press cited above even exceed the screenplay of jingoistic, irrational Vijayakant movies. The euphoria on Police atrocities in the name of 'Naxal probe' and blowing up Vijayakumar cum intelligence policemen as fearless warriors shows the bootlicking character of the press. By showing the arrested comrades in poor light and with its countless fabrications, news media shows its true nature in full light.
A planned measure to show Maoists as a biggest threat surrounding Tamilnadu is under way. But Police officers like Vijayakumar and Nanjil Kumaran say that Maoists have not grown much in Tamilnadu to fear about. In an interview, Ashok Kumar, Superintendent of Police, 'Q' Branch says, "According to our estimation, the number of Maoists in Tamilnadu may come around 25 to 35". Also, police accepts that the seized weapons are quite ordinary and not dreadful ones.
Why such a hue and cry then? Why do photographs of Vijayakumar posing in combing operations in Periyakulam, Kodaikanal, Dharmapuri and Courtallam pour out in media? What's the purpose behind setting up a permanent STF camp in Periyakulam?
It's not a usual narcissistic propaganda stunt of police. It's the state terrorism to terrorize the people. The very purpose is to instill the brute face of STF in the minds of people so that it'll be recalled, whenever they hear the word 'Naxabari' again and they will be dreaded in fear to take part in it. Secondly, it's the extravagant posture of Karunanidhi to counter Jayalalitha. For a long time, it's been the permanent propaganda of all the Brahminic media, From 'The Hindu' to Cho.Ramaswamy and Jayalalitha that the Law and order will worsen if Karunanidhi comes to power. So this time Karunanidhi is all set to prove his mettle. Hence he chose Vijayakumar, a blessed boy of Jayalalitha to lead the 'Naxal-Hunt'. Morever, DMK Govt must have felt a dosage of the blown-out 'Naxal-Hunt' as a necessity to market the state as a peaceful destination to the MNC's.
As expected, Police always makes use of every single opportunity to strengthen its unquestionable authority and to conceal all its criminal acts. Hence, 'outdoor-shootings' are enacted in hills and jungles to create an image as if the police is engaged in a dangerous mission. Police tries to cover up all the past, present and future fake encounters using this opportunity as a screen.
After all, what exactly happened in Periyakulam that it is portrayed so dreadfully? Simply three men got arrested with some weapons. There was no bomb blast or a gun fight or any lethal mishap. Not even a scratch for the policemen. Even according to the Law and order view of police, it's just an ordinary crime.
Compare this incident with the recent gory assault on 'Dinakaran' Newspaper by DMK hoodlums in broad day light with police as mere onlookers. Karunanidhi justified the assault by saying that it was incited by the poll published by 'Dinakaran' though the brutal violence was caught clearly in camera that led to the death of three employees of 'Dinakaran'.
If some magazine made a 'grave crime' by estimating a 2% mass support for Azhagiri, the elder son of Karunanidhi, then we are supposed to acknowledge the fury of Azhagiri's henchmen and their 'just' protest of setting ablaze the newspaper office with its staff held inside. But if some take up arms against an establishment that pushed crores of peasants to suicide, countless people to hunger and butchered muslims and dalits, then it's terrorism!
If three youths made a 'grave crime' by possessing some guns, then police searches for the Maoists every nook and corner of the state. Then what were the combing operations after the DMK councilor got bombarded with remote controlled device in broad day light in Sivagangai district recently? Why there is no cry about the violent incidents that led to the cancellation of local body elections and cooperative society elections? Was any STF ever got deployed to probe these criminal gangs? Whether such ferocity was ever shown for hunting corruption or communalism or caste atrocities other than Naxals? Was any Special Task Force ever formed to curb these crimes that take place straight in front of our eyes than to comb for Naxals in forests?
Violence or non-violence is not the issue. The ruling classes have no objection to get assimilated in the system, to act as agents of MNC's and even for an armed clash for shares in the looting the state wealth. The technology involved in the remote device that triggered the bomb in Sivagangai district is far advanced than that of the one implanted for Chandra babu Naidu by People's War Group. Even after that there was no witch hunt. It's not only because the perpetrators belonged to the ruling party but principally because that this violence is not aimed against the ruling classes. That's why all the pillars of democracy pounce on Naxalites, when they proclaim to take up arms against the unjust political establishment.
Particularly Ruling classes fear the masses of this country that fight against the Liberalisation – Privatisation – Globalisation (LPG) policies may get organised under the leadership of communist revolutionaries in future. It's not the jungles or rifles that terrify the establishment but it's the Marxist-Leninist-Mao thought. The unrelenting fight and the indomitable soul of the Communist revolutionaries is the one that drives the establishment to panic. They end up in an endless jugglery of words concealing their fear, starting with citing the reason of Naxalism as Unemployment and disenchantment of youth. They dream to eradicate Naxalism by eradicating the above said social evils. They present Naxal Politics as a Criminal act just like robbery or prostitution by saying it evolves due to poverty and unemployment.
If one has to buy that argument, all those disenchanted one lakh farmers should have become Naxals and would not have killed themselves. It's not despair that drives the Naxalites but it's the rage against the social injustice. The scientific outlook of Marxism-Leninism leads their way. Naxalites bear the society on their shoulders. Naxalites are the men and women who come forward by their own will to sacrifice their personal pleasures of life for the sake of masses. Naxalites neither are disillusioned youth nor is Communism an ideology that withers away when plates are full.
No one can defeat the Naxal Politics as wrong by argument. Any high profile leader of any ballot box party will never be able to answer a single question of a simple cadre of Naxalbari movement. The ruling classes fear to counter the Naxalites politically and hence they threaten, terrify and try to isolate them from the masses.
We can smash the false propaganda carried out by the state and media on the Periyakulam incident. But it doesn't mean that this false propaganda didn't sell out or that people understood the justification of the armed struggle of Maoists. The report published by the State Committee of Tamilnadu, CPI (Maoist) on Periyakulam incident is by itself an example.
The report says, "Media tries to project Maoists as arms obsessed terrorists hiding the ambitions and ideology.", and "Karunanidhi Govt is propagating panic by portraying simple preparations for armed struggle as bigger terrorism." It further explains briefly on who Maoists are and why they take up arms.
When an organization is in a stage to explain to people to make them understand on whom the Naxalites are, what they fight for and why do they take up arms, it is just childish to claim that they had started the armed struggle. In the last seven years, it is for the third time that they were caught encircled in Tamilnadu.
In January 2000 as a consequence of Bus torching, Comrade Ravindran was tortured by the police and was killed in the custody. Police fabricated it as an encounter. It was DMK tenure at that time. In November 2003, 26 comrades were arrested in oothangarai of Dharmapuri district, charged under POTA and Comrade Siva was shot dead by the police. It was AIADMK tenure at that time. Now Periyakulam has come to the fore.
When Ravindran was murdered and when 26 comrades were detained in oothangarai, we criticized their adventurism of forming armed squads even without mass support. Maoists got infuriated on us. They argued that they have organized people in large numbers in Dharmapuri and said the district was an emerging front of armed struggle.
Now with Periyakulam, the Report of Maoist party doesn't say anything on what exactly happened there. There is no mass political support in the area for the party and there are no reports as to any of the local people got detained for supporting the Maoists.
It seems not the politics but only geography leads the Maoists. They seem to think that dense jungles and hilly ranges are enough reasons to form the armed squads and to start an armed struggle. Not only that, they consider these absurd actions devoid of political outlook as their personal issues. They think in a classical adventurist way like, "We fight and we sacrifice. What's your problem?"
The simple truth that Communists are answerable to people for each and every of their act seems to hit them only when the enemies start the false propaganda. Hence, they explain in their report on why they take up arms. They cite a long list from SEZ's to Gujarat and say, "It is not terrorism when people take up arms against these kinds of terrorisms. Maoists take up arms only to spearhead such a mass revolution."
So the mass revolution is already on and they spearhead them! Wonder, we have never heard Communists who lead a revolution of the masses offering such a 'self-explanation' to the masses who are already engaged in the revolution.
Be it SEZ's or other Privatisation onslaughts, people are taking up spontaneous struggles all over the country. But all these struggles, however militant they may be, are only economic struggles that are waged by several sections of the society to fulfill their individual demands within the limits of the system. There is neither the political outlook of Anti-Recolonisation nor an aim of overthrowing the state apparatus in these struggles. The duty of the communists is to organize the people under such political slogans and that's what 'organising people' means. Maoists don't have such an understanding nor do they believe in organising people this way.
But Maoists follow a detrimental methodology to politicize people. They intend to convert the struggles of people waged for their individual demands as a clash with police. The police repression on the people will eventually follow and Maoists believe that thereby people will understand the state as a brutal apparatus by experience. They get some of their frontrunners for armed squads through these actions amongst such troubled people. This is the tactics formed by Maoists to organize people for a revolution.
They project their mass support attained in Andhra and Dandakaranya due to some special circumstances, as mass armed struggle and they argue for applying it all over the country. But the mass support they gained there is not a political support; it's based on the moral feeling of tribal people that 'Naxalites give their life for the sake of tribal people and their causes'. This kind of support doesn't encourage political consciousness among the people but on the contrary wipes it out and leaves them as spectators.
In Andhra, media reports say that there was no response or incidents in the recent Bandh announced by Maoists against SEZ's. Only military acts of smashing the electrical and telecommunication towers have taken place in Chattisgarh. A political activity of Bandh which is supposed to express the political consciousness of the people in an organized form, which is supposed to raise the class consciousness of the people to a higher level has lost the meaning, getting diminished just as a 'nuisance act' to the state.
Comrade Sonu, CC member of CPI (Maoist) acknowledges the fact that they have suffered a setback in Andhra. ('People's March', March-July 2007). But they analyze the setback only in military aspects and not on political lines.
They don't even take in to consideration of some questions like, "Whether People fight to protect the 'people's authority' which Maoists claim to have established?", "Why the lakhs of people organized during the talks with Rajashekhara Reddy, did not organise against the fake encounters that followed it?", "how was it possible for George Bush to visit Andhra without any stiff resistance from people where Maoists claim to have strong support?", and "how come it became possible for the rulers of Andhra to carry on with their pursuit of implementing neo-liberal policies ahead of other states and in such a situation why there are no significant mass movements like Nandigram?".
Maoists find peace at simple formulas for these questions by saying that due to the repression, people are unable to organize and they are ready otherwise. But the countless political uprisings throughout the history or the ones that took place in front our eyes in Kashmir, Manipur or in recently in Nandigram, (may be of whatever leadership) but these mass struggles erupting out challenging the brutal repressions doesn't seem to open the eyes of Maoists. It's because of their pure military outlook which doesn't cares about the people's initiative and they care about the mass support only from the perspective of supporting their armed actions.
Leave the false propaganda of media projecting Maoists as arms obsessed. What is the true state of affairs? If not, then what's the meaning of Maoists having an idea to find the engagement in armed struggle as the deciding criterion to assess the revolutionary character of any organization? Or what to infer from the childish armed struggle preparation of Periyakulam? It only conveys their idea of 'Rifle as the physical form of revolutionary politics.'
Maoists sarcastically reject our argument, when we put forward that the armed struggle is a matured form of political struggle and we should make people understand the necessity of armed struggle through their own experience of political struggles. They limit the politics in to heroic dialogues like, "People are all ready for armed struggle. For how long can we chat and waste their time? We need to start immediately."
The duty of communists is to engage people in revolution and to lead them and not to enact revolution on behalf of them. Revolution is not a personal scuffle between revolutionaries and ruling classes. But the self-styled left adventurism thinks of bestowing liberation to the people.
The treachery of right opportunists and pseudo communists easily gets exposed. But many fail to understand that the left adventurism also causes extensive damage to revolution. Utmost it is understood in turns of personal loss of those comrades who face the cruel prisons and brutal tortures.
The report of State Committee of Tamilnadu, CPI (Maoist) says, "Karunanidhi tries to threaten not only Maoist revolutionaries but all who fight against the establishment by sending STF, a terrorist force." Certainly, there is no doubt that the state apparatus and STF are common enemies of all masses. But the Maoist deed provided the opportunity to the enemies to showcase themselves as heroes, to justify all their terror acts and to isolate the revolutionaries from the masses. The question is whether at this moment the Maoists understand it as a loss to revolution.
Editors Team - Puthiya Jananayagam
Friday, September 14, 2007
Tamil Nadu: Rendered inactive
Rendered inactive
S. VISWANATHAN
in Chennai
CHIEF MINISTER Jayalalithaa told the Standing Committee of Chief Ministers of naxalite-affected States in New Delhi on September 19 that Tamil Nadu had been free from naxalite violence in the past three years. There is no reason to disbelieve her statement. There have been no reports of any naxalite activity in the vulnerable regions, particularly in the Dharmapuri-Krishnagiri belt.
Although the State has not witnessed any major naxalite attack since the 1980s when the government launched a massive offensive against the extremists, sporadic incidents were reported in the border districts when outlawed groups sneaked into the forests when under pressure in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Apparently anticipating such forays, the State government announced a ban on the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
The most recent incident of violence in Tamil Nadu involving naxalites was the death of Siva alias Parthiban, described as the "State secretary" of the Radical Youth League, in an "encounter" on November 24, 2002, in the Uthangarai forests of Dharmapuri district. The police claimed that five of their men were injured in the "operation". Human rights activists disputed the claim and recalled that Siva was a key witness in a case relating to the death of a telecommunication engineer, K. Ravinder, also in an "encounter with naxalites" three years earlier at Perungattupallam village in Dharmapuri district. The 25 persons arrested after the "encounter" reportedly included the "chief" of the People's War in Tamil Nadu, Duraisingavelu of Chennai. Five of those detained were women, three of them siblings. The crackdown on Left extremists began when an arms training programme for about 40 persons was to commence in the Uthangarai forests. Earlier, in May 2002, a panchayat union chairman was allegedly done to death by persons belonging to a Maoist organisation and another extremist group.
The activists involved in the Uthangarai incident and their associates are said to be either in prison or rendered inactive because of continued police repression. Three companies of the Tamil Nadu Special Police have been deployed in the region. Besides, after the killing of the forest brigand Veerappan in 2004, two teams of the Special Task Force (STF) assigned to capture him have been tasked to gather information on extremists in Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Tiruvallur and Vellore districts.
At the Delhi meeting, while stressing the need for proactive steps to wean people away from any possible influence of naxalites, Jayalalithaa said poverty, rural indebtedness, unemployment, inequitable growth and exploitation formed the breeding ground for naxalites. In Dharmapuri district all these factors manifest themselves. The State government has adopted the "twin-track policy" of tackling the security threat and simultaneously implementing development programmes.
In a significant move, the STF teams have been asked to undertake development work by collecting "information on the needs of the people". Also, the Inspector-General of Police, Intelligence, has been named the nodal officer for coordinating the programme. But it is doubtful if these efforts will be enough to tackle the complicated problems relating to child labour, infant mortality and malnutrition among children, poor earnings of rural households, land redistribution and unemployment.
The CPI (M-L) Liberation has a significant presence in the State. Its trade union wing, the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), which claims a membership of three lakh workers, has been concentrating on unorganised workers. Party sources said that apart from addressing the factors that bred extremism, specific problems faced by the Scheduled Tribes should be attended to. The SOC (CPI-ML) group, also a party with significant influence and a naxalite past, has been involved in struggles against the policies of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, which it calls "recolonisation", and Hindutva politics, which it terms "Brahminical Hindu fascism". Condemning the killing of innocent people by Maoist groups, some sources in the party said that such actions would only harm the efforts to mobilise people in favour of changing the social order. It wants the people to be made aware of the "bankruptcy of the present social system". "The problem should be seen neither as a law and order problem, nor as a socio-economic problem. This has to be seen as a systemic failure. And Maoists do not seem to have understood this fact," a party leader observed.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
13 Naxals arrested
Saturday August 18 2007 13:42 IST
RAJAHMUNDRY: As many as 13 Naxalites were arrested at Pulimera village in Peddapuram mandal on Thursday.
Of them, seven belonged to CPIML (Janasakthi) and the rest to CPIML (Ramachandran Group). Two .12 bore tapanchas, two countrymade revolvers and revolutionary literature were recovered from them.
Speaking to reporters at here on Friday, East Godavari district Superintendent of Police Battina Srinivasulu said that all the arrested Naxals were involved in 11 criminal exortions and 10 unreported cases. They extorted money from traders, businessmen, industrialists and doctors. They collected Rs 5 lakh from 50 persons.
Explosives Seized :
The SP said Rampachodavaram CI M Veera Reddy and subinspector IV Durga Rao seized 48 detonators and five boxes of gelatin sticks near Bhupathipalem project on the outskirts of Rampchodavaram.
The police recovered the explosives from M Ramaiah (23) of Lakkavaram village.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Maoist leader in police custody
Chennai, August 16: A designated court trying TADA cases today granted police custody of Maoist leader Sundaramoorthy for five days in connection with the 1992 railway track blast case.
Designated judge T Ramasamy granted the police custody of Sundaramoorthy from today till August 20.
The judge also permitted the Q branch, CID police, Dharmapuri to conduct further investigations in the case while allowing the petition filed by it.
The judge said during interrogation, the police should not ill-treat or harrass the accused. The accused should be provided with food, water, shelter and medical assistance at the cost of the police.
The accused also should be provided with the assistance of a lawyer of his choice in accordance with law. The accused has to be produced before this court on August 20 at 1030 hrs, the judge added.
Pointing out that the accused absconded soon after the crime occured was arrested only on July 9, 2007, the judge said he was of the view that the interrogation of the accused was necessary to bring fresh facts which might help the prosecution to handle the case in a proper way. Hence, it was necessary to order further investigation, the judge added.
According to prosecution, the accused planted a country bomb between Dharmapuri and Palacode railway stations on October 5, 1992 with an intent to "overthrow the government, strike terror in the minds of people to support a claim directly or indirectly for secession of Tamil Nadu from Indian Union".
Sundaramoorthy was arrested at Tirupur by the Q Branch Police on July 9 on a non-bailable warrant issued by the POTA court.(Agencies)
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Karunanidhi’s Nandigram
Fearing displacement of about 20,000 people across 10 panchayats, villagers unite in two districts of Tamil Nadu against a Tata group project
Another Nandigram is in the making in Tamil Nadu. In spite of vociferous protests against the Tata's titanium dioxide plant to be situated at Sathankulam in Tuticorin district, the ruling party appears to be in favour of it. The mining area of the proposed project spreads across Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts.
PROMISED LAND: proposed Tata project site:
This impression has gained ground notwithstanding Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's assurance that the final decision on the project would be taken only after consulting the affected people. But before the beginning of the consultation, it is alleged that DMK leaders are coercing presidents of the affected panchayats to support the project. Minister of State for Home Radhika Selvi is alleged to have met some of them in this regard.
Former Arasur panchayat president M. Jeyapandian — whose wife is the current president — said Selvi once visited his house late at night to discuss the project. "The minister said all other panchayat presidents had agreed to the project and I was the only one opposing it," he told TEHELKA. He is determined to oppose the project, and contrary to the minister's claim, he enjoys the support of other presidents as well. On August 3, eight of them along with the Sathankulam union chairman and 11 union councillors gave a representation to the Tuticorin distr 
ict collector opposing the project.
On June 28, the Tatas signed a memorandum of understanding (mou) with the state government for establishing the Rs 2,500-crore titanium dioxide project. The previous Jayalalithaa government had dropped the project due to people's opposition. In a statement, Jayalalithaa said the project was dropped after it was found that it would affect the livelihood of people and pollute the environment.
REBELLIOUS: Villagers protest at Sathankulam
Documents available with TEHELKA say top officials of Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Tuticorin districts, during the previous regime, had given their opinion against the project. TEHELKA also has a copy of the Tuticorin district collector's letter to a senior industries official in which he warned of serious law and order problem if the land is acquired. Even the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (tnpcb) had opposed it. tnpcb Member Secretary Dr T. Sekar, in a letter dated January 17, 2006 to the Tirunelveli collector, said "The mining proposed by the Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited…for a depth of 6 metres will affect trees, vegetation cover and permanent features of the area." Sources said the company had applied for permission to mine at depths from 6.9 m to 8.3 m.
There is also a hitch in acquiring the patta land for the project. It is pointed out that there is no provision in the Mines and Minerals Act-1957, the Mineral Concession Rules-1960 and the Land Acquisition Act-1894 for acquiring mineral-bearing patta lands. The project requires a whopping 16,000 acres of land — about 70 sq km — spread over nearly 10 panchayats. According to estimates, it would displace nearly 20,000 people.
In a 10-page letter dated September 26, 2006 to the director, department of geology and mining, the Tuticorin district collector listed out a number of negative impacts of the project and recalled the earlier findings that the project would adversely affect the livelihood of farmers. "It's not fair on the part of the government to acquire our land. We will oppose the move. We are prepared to face any consequence," said AVK Balasubramaniam, a farmer at Vijayaramapuram in Thatchamozhi village. He scoffed at the promise of employment to the locals. "What employment did they provide to the people of Koodankulam who gave their land for the atomic power plant? Should we sell our land and work as labourers in the Tata company?" he asked.V. Gurusamy of the Arasur village adds, "They say the Tata project would give jobs to thousand people. But agriculture can produce more jobs." The villagers have formed 'land protection committees' to safeguard their interests.
The region is generally dry and arid but the area earmarked for the project is quite green. There are several coconut, mango and palmyra groves. "Drumstick produced here is exported to the Arab countries," said PP Sakthivel, a farmer in Poovudayarpuram. "If the government wants to acquire our land, Tamil Nadu will witness another Nandigram," he said.
Many DMK members in Prakasapuram area are also opposing the project. K. Rajapandian, organiser of the DMK's farmers' wing, is upset over the developments. "Three-fourth of the land which is to be acquired is under cultivation," he said.
According to the Tatas, the potential of farming in the area is limited due to the non-availability of water and the sandy nature of the soil. The company claims that only less than 5 percent of the land required for the project is wetland. S. Asokan, executive in-charge, Tata's titanium project, said: "We believe that, by consultation, we will be able to win the support of the people. We have clearly said that the land will be acquired based on the price arrived at mutually by the government and the landowners in consultation with us."
Few favour the project, and they do not own any land there. K. Senthil of Pudukapathu, a labourer, said he welcomes the project as it would generate more employment. But prominent political parties including the AIADMK, MDMK, CPI and PMK are opposed to the project. Since the Nadars are the dominant community in the region, various Nadar outfits have pledged their support to the stir.
The government has constituted a committee comprising Mines & Minerals Minister K. Ponmudy, Tourism Minister Suresh Rajan, Animal Husbandry Minister Geetha Jeevan and three officials — the revenue secretary, the industries secretary and the minerals commissioner — to study the situation. But on August 1, Selvi and two DMK MLAs took out a procession in support of the project in Tirunelveli. Speaking to TEHELKA, Selvi said: "All the industries were set up in the northern districts. So, there was no development in the southern part. A project like this would change the scenario."
Source: PC Vinoj KumarTuticorin/Tirunelveli www.Tehelka.com
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Hunt still on for absconding naxalites
K.T. Sangameswaran
| Police teams fan out to places outside State |
CHENNAI: Police teams have fanned out to places outside the State as the hunt for absconding naxalites continues. Simultaneously, efforts to identify the origin of weapons seized from those arrested in the wake of the aborted attempt to start an arms training camp near Periyakulam is continuing, a senior police officer said.
The police expected to get more information once the accused were taken into custody. A petition seeking police custody of one of those arrested, Karthi, a close associate of CPI (ML) State secretary Sundaramoorthy, is pending before a Periyakulam court.
The 'Q' Branch is continuing its hunt and the STF's combing operations in the hill ranges is continuing, the officer said.
Weapons' origin unknown
It was on the information provided by Karthi that the police seized a .315 rifle from Pallipattu in Tiruvallur district. The origin of the weapon and three other .303 rifles, which are usually given to the police, was not yet known. The rifles were seized following the arrest of three persons soon after an arms training camp was detected at Murugan Malai, near Periyakulam.
The police had informed other States, particularly those where there is naxalite activity, such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh, about the seizure of the weapons. Enquiries in Tamil Nadu revealed that the weapons did not belong to the State police. Besides being on the look out for the wanted persons in Tamil Nadu, police officers were making enquiries about them in other States. Also, the police were on the look out for those who supported the wanted persons.
