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Terrorism-related incidents in Tamil
Nadu since 2007
2018
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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January 26
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Chennai District
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Chennai Police busted a FICN racket and arrested two persons,
identified as Kamal and Pradeep at Tiruvottiyur railway station
in Chennai District of Tamil Nadu while they were smuggling
FICN worth of INR 4 lakh from Assam in the Chennai Central-bound
Guwahati Express train. Police also recovered five pistols and
20 rounds of ammunition from their possession. Preliminary inquiries
revealed that the duo admitted to smuggling the counterfeit
currencies and arms from Assam at the behest of racket's kingpin
Rafiq, who is serving his term at Puzhal prison in Chennai District.
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Non-Violent |
2 |
January 28 |
Vellore District
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The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs
Kiren Rijiju has asked the CISF personnel to be prepared for
the new forms of terrorism and insurgency. The occasion was
of the graduation ceremony of the batch of 789 women cadets
of the CISF at their Regional Training Centre at Arakkonam of
Vellore District in Tamil Nadu. The Minister praised the CISF's
effective use of technology at Delhi airport and Delhi Metro
facilities that not only improved the security, but also provided
the satisfaction to the passengers. The 2017 was observed as
a 'year of training' as more than 18,000 cadets graduated from
regional centre across the country, said CISF ADG A.K. Pateria.
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Non-Violent |
3 |
February 2 |
Chennai Airport
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The NIA arrested Mohammed Riyaz/Riyas-a resident
of Kannur in Kannur District of Kerala, from Chennai Airport
in Chennai District of Tamil Nadu. Mohammed Riyaz was alleged
to force his wife to convert to Islam and attempted to sell
her to the IS operatives in Syria. We had prior information
about Mohammad Riyaz travelling from Jeddah city (Saudi Arabia)
via Colombo (Sri Lanka) and arrested upon his arrival at Chennai
Airport. He has been interrogated at NIA office in Chennai and
his arrest has not been officially recorded so far, said an
unnamed NIA officer. Mohammed Riyaz is also accused of using
Fake Indian Passport.
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Non-Violent |
4 |
February 4 |
Cumbum Town/Theni District
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Five members of a FICNs gang with links to a
group based in Afghanistan in Cumbum town in Theni District
of Tamil Nadu, along with FICNs in denomination of INR 2,000
worth INR 2.61 Lakhs. During the interrogation, one of the members
identified as J. Ajmal Khan claimed that the gang was involved
in distribution of the counterfeit currency notes and the notes
were printed by his father in the same town. Based on his claim,
the Police raided his house and recovered the FICNs. His father
and other unidentified gang members were also arrested said
unnamed source of Tamil Nadu Police.
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Non-Violent
(FICN recovery) |
5 |
February 7 |
Salem/Salem District
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The Mukkom Police arrested two persons, both
natives of Tamil Nadu, and seized FICNs worth INR 1 million,
following a secret operation. One of the accused Suresh Kumar,
resident of Salem District in Tamil Nadu, was arrested from
a lodge room at Mukkom in Kozhikode District, along with FICNs
to the tune of INR 50,000, following a tip off received by the
Police. "On interrogation, we received information that a woman
named Nirmala from Salem also is involved in the fake currency
racket. Nirmala was arrested by a Police team from Salem and
counterfeit currencies to the tune of Rs 9.5 lakh and equipment
used for printing fake currency," said K P Abhilash SI of Mukkom
Police Station. The Police have seized FICNs in the denomination
of INR 2,000, INR 500, INR 200 and INR 100 from both the arrestees.
Investigation is on to identify the remaining members of the
network. According to Police, the some of the gang members of
the same group were arrested by Thrissur Police in May 2017,
with FICN to the tune of INR 300,000. The racket was trying
to distribute the FICNs in different parts of Kozhikode District,
Police said.
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Non-Violent
(FICN recovery) |
6 |
February 12 |
Poonamalle
Taluk/Tiruvallur District |
The NIA arrested Ansar Meeran (29) from an unspecified
hideout in Poonamallee of Poonamallee Taluk, Tiruvallur
District in Tamil Nadu, who is accused of being IS sympathiser
and for plotting terror attacks in Tamil Nadu. Meeran is the
fourth accused stated in the FIR of IS-Tamil Nadu case. Meeran
and other eight accused were charged under Sections 120B of
the IPC and Sections 17, 18, 18B, 20, 38, 39, and 40 of the
UA (P) Act 1967. Meeran was produced before the designated Special
Court and was sent to judicial custody at Puzhal Central Prison
in Chennai District (Tamil Nadu). Meeran and his associates
conspired the terror attacks, recruited members for IS, raised
illicit funds, arranged travelling for individuals to travel
to Syria and join IS, said an unnamed Investigation Officer.
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Non-Violent
(Arrest) |
7 |
February 22 |
Coimbatore District
|
Around 28 youths from Tamil Nadu are under scanner
of the NIA for alleged links with IS. Out of 28, 20 people are
residents of Coimbatore District, said an unnamed senior NIA
official. The majority of youths, with age between 20-25 years,
belong to the State of Kerala, and residing in Tamil Nadu for
over a decade. The suspicious overseas travelling details of
these youths raised an alarm to NIA and soon the agency started
collecting their cell phone and social media details, said an
unnamed senior NIA official. All of them are well educated-with
graduate degrees and some of them are postgraduate too.
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Non-Violent
(Surveillance) |
8 |
March 13 |
Tamil Nadu |
The NIA filed chargesheet against four accused-Haja
Fakkurudeen (42), Khaja Moideen (50), Shakul Hameed (27), Ansar
Meeran (29) for their alleged links with Islamic State (IS).
The UMHA has directed the NIA to investigate eight people from
Tamil Nadu and a person from Telangana for their alleged activities
related recruitment, organising camp, receiving illicit funds
and helped new recruits to travel to Syria and join IS. "NIA
investigation has revealed that the prime accused Haja Fakkurudeen
had organised and attended several conspiracy meetings in India,
with his associates, for raising funds and to recruit persons
to Daesh (Arabic synonym of IS) in 2014. He had subsequently
joined Daesh in Syria along with his family during the last
week of January 2014 and has been seen featured in the propaganda
video released by the terrorist organisation on social media
websites during December 2016," read a statement released by
the NIA.
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Non-Violent
(Chargesheet filed) |
9 |
March 14 |
Chennai |
Five unidentified Islamic State (IS) sympathisers
from different location from across India, travelled to Doha
(Qatar) in late 2017 with a plan to sneak into Syria and join
the IS, were arrested and has been deported to India and undergoing
the de-radicalisation process. These five IS sympathisers belong
to Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Pune (Maharashtra) and Bijnour in Uttar
Pradesh (U.P.). In November 2017, they were arrested by the
Doha Police and their interrogation revealed that one of them
[unidentified] had sneak into Syria and come back. The group
was deported to India in February 2017. The sympathisers confessed
that they use social media to reach out to its potential recruiters.
In case if does not work-out, then they planned to sneak into
IS-controlled regions such as Syria and Iraq.
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Non-Violent
(Statement) |
10 |
March 15 |
Chennai |
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed
a chargesheet against four accused including a Singaporean of
India-origin-Haja Fakkurudeen for conspiring and organizing
the terror camps, recruitment and training of Islamic State
(IS) sympathizers in Tamil Nadu and Telangana, reports The
Hindu on March 16. The other persons in the chargesheet
are Khaja Moideen (50), Shakul Hameed (27), Ansar Meeran (29)
with Sections 120-B and 125 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) imposed
on them. Haja Fakkurudeen had organised and attended several
meetings in India with his associates, for raising funds and
to recruit persons to the IS during 2013-14. He joined the IS
in Syria along with his family during the last week of January,
2014, and has been seen in the propaganda video released by
IS in December, 2016.
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Non-Violent
(Chargesheet filed) |
11 |
March 31 |
Chennai |
The NIA filed a counter-affidavit in the Madras
High Court against a bail plea of Chennai-based M. Shakul Hameed
aka Salavudeen (27)-an IS sympathiser who migrated to Syria
in 2015 but later deported to India by the Turkish authorities.
If the appellant (Hameed) is released on bail, he would likely
to get involved in IS-sympathising activities and may also escape
from India. Other accused in the same case are still absconding
and they have to be secured to contain the threat to India,
read the counter-affidavit.
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Non-Violent
(Counter-affidavit) |
12 |
April 7 |
Chennai |
The NIA filed a chargesheet against two accused-Sadham
Hussain and Subair in murder case of a Hindu Munnani Spokesperson
of C. Sasikumar. When raided the houses of both accused, the
investigators found incriminating documents and DVDs of Zakir
Naik, read the chargesheet. The team of investigators recovered
the donation receipts of Islamist extremist organisation-Popular
Front of India (PFI), PFI literature, mobile phones, CDs and
pen drives, DVDs of Zakir Naik, said unnamed official of the
NIA. On September 22, 2016, C. Sasikumar of Subramaniyampalayam
near Thudiyalur in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu was brutally
hacked to death by four-member gang while he was returning home
on his motorbike.
|
Non-Violent
(chargesheet) |
13 |
April 23 |
Coimbatore |
A convict of 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts-Mohamed
Rafiq (53) who served imprisonment and released, was arrested
on April 23 after an audio clip of his eight-minutes conversation
with a truck contractor-Prakash, surfaced in which Rafiq boasted
about his plan to kill Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi
and claimed to be the one who planted bombs during the visit
of Lal Krishan Advani-a Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) member to
Coimbatore in 1998, reports The Times of India. Mohamed Rafiq
has been charged with two counts of Sections 153-A and 506 of
the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and was produced before the Judicial
Magistrate VI R. Rajavelu and send to judicial custody. The
preliminary investigation revealed that it was the case of 'showing-off'
to intimidate Prakash and no murder conspiracy. However, the
investigation is on-going, said an unnamed Police officer from
the Special Intelligence Unit.
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Non-Violent
(arrest) |
14 |
May 3 |
Tamil Nadu |
The NIA probed a woman IS operative-- Karen
Aisha al-Muslimah aka Karen Aisha Hamidon, in Manila, Philippines-
who was alleged to direct Indian members of IS to carry-out
terror activities in India. During the NIA's probe of IS related
cases in 2015 and 2016, it was found that three accused-Mohammad
Naser (from Tamil Nadu), Mohammad Sirajuddin and Adnan Hasan
(from Karnataka), were in contact with Karen through social
media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram. Karen
is one of the most active IS operative in Philippines between
2014 and 2015, claimed the NIA. She ran various Facebook pages,
WhatsApp groups and Telegram channels for motivating, radicalising
and instigating her online associates from different countries,
including India to fight on behalf of IS in conflict zones,
said NIA Spokesperson. Karen was arrested by the National Bureau
of Investigation (NBN) of the Philippines on October 11, 2017
and was charged for incitement to rebellion. The NIA is now
waiting for handing over of evidence through a legal channel
by the Philippines so that the case against the arrested persons
becomes stronger in the court, said the NIA Spokesperson.
|
Non-Violent
(NIA Statement) |
15 |
May 28 |
Tamil Nadu
|
The joint team of the Intelligence Bureau (IB)
and Delhi Police probed Mohammad Rasheed (40)-a native of Tamil
Nadu at Delhi's IGI Airport for his alleged links with terrorist
organisations and recruiting two French citizens for training
in Pakistan. Rasheed was handed-over to the NIA and later to
Tamil Nadu Police for further investigation. Rasheed believed
to be self-radicalised and was allegedly in contact with terrorists
involved in 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia which claimed 202
lives. In 2013, for his alleged links with terrorist organisations-Rasheed
was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in France. Rasheed
was deported to India in third week of May 2018 [date unspecified].
|
Non-Violent
(Probing) |
16 |
June 2 |
Coimbatore |
The Tamil Nadu Police unrevealed a printing
unit of the FICNs in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu and arrested an
unidentified man with 6,000 FICNs worth INR one crore. During
a routine vehicle check, a man was found carrying FICNs worth
INR 83 lakh on his two-wheeler vehicle. Acting on the confession
made by the arrested man, Police searched his house in Velandipalayam
in Coimbatore city and recovered another slot of FICNs worth
INR 20 lakh. Along with FICNs-a computer, printer, and note
cutting machine was also recovered from the house. Further investigation
is ongoing, said an unnamed Police officer.
|
Non-Violent
(Arrest with FICNs) |
17 |
June 8 |
Chennai |
The Madras High Court has dismissed a Public
Interest Litigation (PIL) to ban alleged radical organisation
based in Kerala-the Popular Front of India (PFI) for its involvement
in activities to disturb peace and harmony of the country. It
is not for this court to decide that which organisation shall
be ban. This decision lies with the executive of the State,
said Chief Justice of Madras High Court-Indira Banerjee and
Justice P.T. Asha. The Intelligence agencies had claimed that
PFI had a role in three bomb blasts in India in 2012, 2013,
and 2015 [dates unspecified], said PIL petitioner K. Gopinath.
|
Non-Violent
(Judicial Statement) |
2017
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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January 15
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Tamil Nadu
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Investigations following the arrest of five
members of a group called Base Movement in November 2016 have
revealed that a leader of the group was involved in four blasts
carried out in Madurai between 2011 and 2014,. The five members
were arrested by the NIA from Madurai in Tamil Nadu in connection
with a series of bomb blasts at court premises in South India.
One of the arrested men, N Abbas Ali, who is linked to former
operatives of Al Ummah, has revealed that he planted four bombs
in Madurai between 2011 and 2014. Ali is accused by the NIA
of planning and executing blasts in the premises of courts in
Chittoor, Kollam, Mysuru, Nellore and Malapuram between April
7 and November 1, 2016.
Following are the accounts of the Madurai blasts
provided by Ali to investigators, which are corroborated by
news reports:
The May 2011 blast occurred in a dustbin near
the crowded Mattuthavani bus stand at 9.15 pm. Nobody was injured
in the minor blast. On September 29, 2011, Ali planted a device
in a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus to mark the
anniversary of the 2002 killing of Al Ummah leader Imam Ali
by police in Bengaluru. The IED, made with materials sourced
from firecrackers, was found by employees of the transport corporation
and defused. On September 29, 2012, Ali planted an IED outside
a TASMAC wine shop in Theni to mark the death anniversary of
Imam Ali. The device exploded but no casualties occurred. The
fourth blast occurred on February 9, 2014, at the venue of an
AIADMK meeting in Madurai. The bomb, placed below the stage,
exploded when no one was around. The date was the anniversary
of the hanging of Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001
Parliament attack case. "Ali has claimed to have been involved
in four blasts in the Madurai region. It seems that these cases
are undetected or some others have already been arrested,''
a source said.
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Non-violent |
2 |
February 6 |
Chennai/ New Delhi
|
Nine Indians joined the IS in 2016 - eight from
Tamil Nadu and one from Telangana, the NIA learnt from the central
security agencies that interrogated three people who were deported
from Abu Dhabi for recruiting Indian for IS.
According to the report, the NIA's FIR which
was registered on Republic day, both in the capital and in Chennai,
says that the agency took custody of the three men who were
working in Abu Dhabi on behalf of IS. Sheikh Azhar Al Islam
Abdul Sattar Sheikh, Mohammed Farhan Maohammed Rafiq Shaikh
and Adnan Hussain Mohammed Hussain were working to 'identify,
motivate, itizen ze, recruit and train Indian itizen located
both in India and other countries for planning and executing
terrorist attacks in India and other friendly countries'
|
Non-violent |
3 |
February 7 |
NS
|
The suspected IS Chennai module, which had a
Telangana native in its ranks, received funds from unknown sources
in Syria at the behest of the banned outfit. NIA had registered
a case in the last week of January against nine members of the
module on the charge of working for Islamic State. Of the nine-member
module, only one person actually joined the terrorist outfit,
while the rest failed to reach Syria, NIA officials said.
The IS sympathisers had reportedly organised
several meetings and even chalked out plans to reach the terror
hinterland to work in the so-called caliphate. "Based on information
available with us, only one person from Chennai reached Syria.
Prima facie, we have information that the module got funding
from abroad and they were at an advanced stage of executing
their plans to reach Syria," the NIA officials told. They were
still in the process of identifying the place where they undertook
training in Tamil Nadu. The IS module member from the state
is suspected to be from Karimnagar in North Telangana and the
state Police was unwilling to disclose his identify. Though
he hails from Telangana, he had been working in Chennai. It
is through social media the nine came to know each other.
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Statement |
4 |
April 24 |
Chennai
|
Two persons have been arrested for allegedly
trying to purchase train tickets using FICN. The incident happened
at the booking counter at Central railway station in Chennai
and FICN with a total face value of INR 7,000 was recovered
from them, RPF officials said. The enquiry revealed that the
city based duo possessed three fake notes in INR 2,000 denomination
and two in INR 500, they added. They were later handed over
to Government Railway Police (GRP), who filed a case and are
probing the matter.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
May 22 |
Pudukottai District
|
Two persons were arrested along with FICNs in
the denomination of INR 2000 and INR 500 with a total face value
of INR 10,000 on in Pudukottai District of Tamil Nadu. They
were arrested when they allegedly tried to circulate the notes.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
May 25 |
Tamil Nadu
|
NIA has filed the chargesheet against three
men from Tamil Nadu belonging to Base Movement, an alleged terror
group, before a special court in Bengaluru for triggering an
explosion in court premise in Mysuru on August 1, 2016. According
to a press release from NIA, the agency arrested five people
and chargesheets were filed against N. Abbas Ali, 28, 'founder'
of Base Movement, of Madurai, Samsun Karim Raja, 23 of Madurai,
and Dawood Sulaiman, 23, of Palavakkam, Chennai.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
June 3 |
Tirunelveli District
|
FICN with a face value of around INR 1.4 crore
has been seized following the arrest of two persons in Tenkasi
of Tirunelveli District. Hassan (61) and Samidurai (49), who
were found moving around suspiciously with a bag at the bus
stand were arrested. A search revealed that they were carrying
fake currency worth Rs six lakh with them. After questioning,
police personnel seized fake currencies in INR 2000, INR 500
and INR 100 denominations to the tune of INR 1,36,60,000 from
Samidurai' house. Apart from the fake currency notes, police
also seized three xerox machines used by the two.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
July 4 |
Burma Bazaar area / Chennai
|
Rajasthan ATS arrested a suspected Islamic State
(ISIS) handler, identified as Haroon (30) from Burma Bazaar
area in Chennai in Tamil Nadu. The accused, Haroon, is suspected
of collecting and sending funds to the terrorist organisation
and was detained following information from two other accused,
Mohammed Iqbal and Jamil Ahmed, who are already under the custody
of Rajasthan ATS. Haroon reportedly runs a mobile phone shop
in the area.
The report states that Haroon has been taken
to Jaipur (Rajasthan) for further questioning and investigation.
There have been reports of several individuals joining the Islamic
State in Syria from Tamil Nadu and Telangana. It is believed
that nine people, including one from Telangana and eight from
Tamil Nadu, had joined Islamic State in the year 2016.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
August 3 |
Coimbatore
|
A NIA team from Cochin (Kerala) carried out
searches in the houses of two people from Coimbatore (Tamil
Nadu), for allegedly having links with terror group Islamic
State (IS). The NIA searched the houses of Abdul Rahman, (27),
who hails from Kottai Pudur in Ukkadam and S Abdullah, (24),
whose house is on Pallivasal Street in Karumbukadai. Moreover,
the NIA also carried out searches at an internet browsing center
in Karumbakadai. The NIA reportedly interrogated the two accused,
till late on August 3, at the office of the Coimbatore Police
Commissioner.
They seized 70 DVDs with inflammatory speeches,
two mobile phones and two laptops. The two youngsters were allegedly
running a browsing center and were spreading ISIS propaganda.
Abdul Rahman had finished MCA and was searching
for a job while Abdullah had completed Class XII. The NIA had
also conducted searches at the residence of a person from Alapuzzha.
"Based on the reliable information that certain persons from
Kerala and Tamil Nadu were in touch with the members of the
ISIS/Daesh terror module in this case, over internet based social
media platforms and have been radicalizing on the ideology of
ISIS, the NIA conducted searches at houses and workplaces of
such persons. Inputs had also revealed that such radicalized
individuals were inclined to support and further the objectives
of the prescribed terrorist organization," the press release
stated. The NIA seized mobile phones, laptops, hard disks, pen
drives, DVDs/ CDs, memory cards, SIM cards, along with books
and manuscripts.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
August 3 |
Coimbatore
|
Three persons have been taken into custody by
the NIA on the charge that they were affiliated with the Islamic
State (IS). The NIA arrested one person from Alappuzha in Kerala
and two from Coimbatore. They were detained after raids at their
residence following inputs that they were in contact with suspected
IS recruits from South India. Data storage devices, mobile phones
and other materials were seized. The raids were conducted after
obtaining orders from the NIA court in Kochi. Alok Mittal, Inspector-General,
NIA, confirmed the detention and said no arrest had been recorded.
An NIA Kochi team is interrogating the Alappuzha native, who
is employed by a private firm in Kochi, and the two others.
Reports said the detained men were maintaining social media
contact with suspected IS recruits. The NIA raids were linked
to the investigation in a case regarding the Umar Al Hindi module
and a meeting held by its members in Kanakamala in Kannur District
of Kerala, in October, 2017. According to the NIA charge sheet
in the case, members of the module - youth from Kerala and Tamil
Nadu entered into a criminal conspiracy to wage war against
the Government of India.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
August 4 |
Coimbatore
|
The NIA was questioning two more persons from
the Coimbatore city (Tamil Nadu), believed to be 'close friends'
of the duo who were interrogated two days ago in connection
with an Islamic State (IS) module busted in Kannur District
(Kerala) last year. A team of officials, led by a DSP from Kerala
arrived in Coimbatore and took the youths to a Police station
for "questioning" about the movement of their friends from Karumbukadai
and Ukkadam in the Coimbatore city. According to Police sources,
one youth is running a shop that sells second-hand books and
the other a shoe outlet in the city. They would either be released
after questioning or taken to Kochi, they said.
In the past few days, NIA has questioned "a
few persons" from Coimbatore and Alappuzha in Kerala as part
of its probe in connection with an Islamic State module busted
in Kannur District in 2016. Report adds that Basil Shihab of
Alappuzha (Kerala), Abdul Rahman, of Ukkadam in Coimbatore,
and S Abdullah, of Karumbukadai in Coimbatore, are being questioned
by the NIA team at its Kochi office since August 4. Their interrogation
will continue on August 6 too. The NIA had on August 3 carried
out searches at the residences of these youths.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
September
18 |
Chennai
|
The NIA arrested one person, identified as Shakul
Hameed, who had planned to travel to Syria to join the Islamic
State (IS/ISIS) as well as carry out attacks in Tami Nadu, from
Chennai. NIA said that Hameed had hatched a conspiracy along
with eight others in 2013, to further activities of ISIS in
India. The agency had filed a case against this module from
Tamil Nadu in January this year (2017). "Hameed and associates,
with the intention of furthering the activities of the proscribed
terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)/Daesh,
had hatched a criminal conspiracy from 2013 onward and formed
a terrorist gang which had raised and received funds, organised
meetings, recruited and facilitated the travel of some persons
to Syria to join the ISIS/ Daesh," said NIA in a statement.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
October 6 |
Coimbatore Rural District
|
The NIA questioned a 26-yer-old youth, identified
as Amir in Mettupalayam in Coimbatore Rural District of Tamil
Nadu for his suspected links with the militant group Islamic
State (IS/ISIS). The youth, who is running a mobile sales and
service shop, was picked up by a NIA team from Kochi in Ernakulam
District of Kerala on October 6th morning. Amir, who has no
criminal record in the local police stations, was taken to Mettupalayam
station and questioned him. NIA officials recovered a mobile
phone and five SIM cards from him. After questioning him for
hours, the officials let him go. He was asked to appear before
them in Kochi on October 9.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
November 9 |
Chennai
|
A NIA official's team questioned two persons
in Chennai for their alleged links with the Islamic State (IS).
NIA sources said the two men, identified as Mohammed Jaffer
of Kondithope and Sahib of Mannadi, were questioned by a team
of officials from Delhi in a secluded place in Chennai city.
They were summoned to appear before them to inquire after IS
sympathiser Shajahan VK had spilled the beans about them during
questioning. NIA officials said Shajahan, hailing from Kannur
District in Kerala, was deported from Turkey in July after a
failed attempt to enter Syria. The Delhi Police arrested him
in July after he was deported from Turkey. The NIA took over
a case from the Delhi Police in September.
Inquiries revealed that Jaffer and Sahib met
Shajahan during their visit to Uttar Pradesh in 2016. Shajahan
disclosed to intelligence agencies about the presence of 17
people from Kerala in the IS in Syria and Iraq. Shajahan had
visited Turkey for carrying out terrorist activities after procuring
an Indian passport in the fake name of Mohammad Ismail Mohideen.
He travelled to Turkey from Chennai in February.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
December 30 |
Madurai |
Madurai Police arrested seven members of a gang
for attacking N. Abubacker-an accused of serial blasts cases
in the court complexes in various parts of South India. These
seven persons were hiding in a lodge in Triplicane city in Chennai
in Chennai District and were arrested with the assistance of
Chennai Police. The arrested persons are identified as Mohammad
Harun, Thoufiq Ali, Kiasuddin, Seeni Allah Pichai, Farooq Abdullah,
Mohammad Ali, and Abubacker Siddique. All seven persons were
present in the court of Judicial Magistrate and later lodged
in prison.
|
Non-Violent |
2016
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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March 20
|
Chennai / Tamil Nadu
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CB-CID arrested three persons in connection
with FICN racket in Chennai (Tamil Nadu). Siddique, Syed and
Ganesh were arrested after a tip-off from the personnel of the
OCIU. The counterfeit currency wing of the CB-CID took over
from there and arrested them. "FICNs are brought into the country
through the permeable Indo-Bangladesh borders to Malda in West
Bengal from where they are ferried to other parts of the country,"
a Police officer said.
|
Non-Violent |
2 |
April 15 |
Madhavaram / Chennai / Thiruvallur District
|
Officials of the NIA picked up a 23-year-old
driver from his residence in Madhavaram of Chennai city in Thiruvallur
District of Tamil Nadu to conduct inquires into Burdwan blast
reported in West Bengal on October 2, 2014. Based on the confession
of an already arrested suspect, a team of NIA Sleuths picked
up Ebin Abdullah, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Madhavaram.
The officials interrogated him for more than three hours to
get details of another suspect who was involved in the Burdwan
blast and allegedly stayed with him earlier. Interrogations
revealed that the man whom they were looking for had left Chennai
and was hiding in Kerala. The person who is at large had links
with the Burdwan blast in West Bengal in 2014, in which an explosion
occurred in a two-storeyed building in the Khagragarh locality
of Burdwan. Two persons were killed and one was injured in the
incident. Sources said the suspect was part of a three-member
team who prepared bombs in a house in Khagragarh.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
June 2 |
Thanjavur District
|
The NIA filed a charge sheet against a 23-year-old
hacker from Tamil Nadu, identified as Mohammed Naser who went
to Sudan to join the terrorist outfit Islamic State (IS). According
to the charge sheet, a text message sent by the accused, Mohammed
Naser, to his father has been listed among the key pieces of
evidence against him. When he reached Sudan via Dubai on September
25, 2015, he allegedly sent a text message to his father: "Pray
for me, for I will never forget you in my prayer…my prayer that
we meet again if not in this world then in jannat (paradise)…I
have reached to the Islamic State. I know it might sound kind
of crazy for you but your son really had to take this bold step
to get out of the corrupt system which has democracy first on
its list. There is no comeback."
A resident of Thanjavur (Thanjavur District),
Mohammed Naser first went to Dubai in October 2014, where his
father was working. He came back to India when his 90-day visa
expired. He went to Dubai again in May 2015 on an employment
visa. Meanwhile in February the same year when he was in India,
Naser came into contact with a Twitter handle- Dawlah, which
promoted IS propaganda. He expressed his desire to travel to
Syria and the user recommended his name to join a WhatsApp group,
'Islam Q And A.' Later in April, he switched to Telegram, a
secure web-based application, after he came to know that it
was difficult to intercept. "He was part of various IS chat
groups and expressed his desire several times to do hijrat [migrate].
No one replied to his messages. It was in August 2015 he came
into contact with another Twitter handle-madmullah which arranged
his visa for Sudan," said a senior NIA official.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
June 5 |
Thanjavur District
|
Wife of IOCL manager-turned Islamic State (IS)
propagandist and recruiter Mohammed Sirajuddin has testified
against his terror activities in the virtual world, which were
primarily focused on finding easy targets and radicalising them.
The NIA sources said Siraj, an engineering post graduate, who
was working as assistant manager in IOCL, Jaipur, Rajasthan
had told his wife about his plan to migrate to Syria.
Siraj, was also in touch with Tanjavur's (Tamil
Nadu) IS recruit Mohammed Naser who was arrested by the NIA
after deportation from Sudan in 2015 The NIA recently filed
a chargesheet against Naser, incorporating statement of his
father, who turned a witness in the case. A self-radicalised
supporter of terrorism, Siraj had wide overseas connection and
his targets included vulnerable women. One such girl Amina,
based in UAE, was drawn into extremist ideology by Siraj, who
wanted to marry her and take her to Syria along with his first
wife.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
June 13 |
Pudukudi village / Tirunelveli District
|
Vice-president of Pudukudi village Panchayat
in Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu, Daniel Prakash, arrested
by Karnataka Police officers in connection with the 2013 blast
near the BJP office in Malleswaram, Bengaluru, had close connections
with subversive elements and sleeper cells of terrorist organisation
Al Ummah in Tamil Nadu. He also supplied them explosives on
at least three occasions.
The investigators said Daniel Prakash had supplied
Al Ummah terrorists with explosives in 2011 that they used to
target BJP leader L K Advani by planting a bomb beneath a bridge
in Alampatti village, 30km from Madurai. Central Crime Branch
Assistant Commissioner Venkatesh Prasanna said Prakash also
sourced the explosives that the terrorists had used to set off
a blast in Tirunelveli in 2012.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
August 15 |
Malleswaram
|
The CCB, Bengaluru, have arrested a member of
banned outfit Al Umma from Tamil Nadu for the Malleswaram blast
in 2013. Mohammed Ali Khan alias Kutti, 45, allegedly
supplied explosive materials to terror suspects who planted
a bomb outside the BJP office on April 17, 2013. The blast left
18 persons, including two students, injured. He was picked up
from a hideout in Satyamangala, Erode District. Police said
Kutti was convicted in the 1998 Coimbatore blast, which killed
50 persons. He was in jail for 12 years and released in 2010.
"Kutti is also a prime accused in the explosion outside film
director Mani Ratnam's residence in 1998. He was involved in
four other blast cases in and around Tamil Nadu in 1998," CCB
said.
"Kutti has expertise in gathering and transporting
blast materials. He would purchase them from different shops
and avoid coming back to the stores for the second time. Introducing
himself as a quarry contractor, Kutti would approach the owners
and purchase the materials, including gelatin sticks, timer,
wire, battery shells and iron pellets," Police said. Seventeen
(17) accused, including Kutti, have been arrested so far in
the Malleswaram blast case.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
August 26 |
India
|
Earlier this month, the Global Islamic Media
Front (GIMF), an international proscribed affiliate of the terror
group al Qaeda (AQ) that creates and disseminates jihadi
media, formed a new branch -- GIMF Sub-continent to publish
and translate the group's messages, videos and magazines in
Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and Tamil. Other AQ-related media and its
supporters too have begun a big propaganda drive particularly
targeting Tamil and Malayalam speakers to reach out to the Muslim
youth for recruitment in South India.
Post-Dhaka attack in Bangladesh, both terror
groups the Islamic State (IS) and AQ, have upped their recruitment
drive in the Indian sub-continent, with the former clearly winning
more supporters online as it publishes its official information
in Bengali language in addition to English, Arabic, French etc.
To counter the IS propaganda, AQ too has started disseminating
messages, videos and jihadi literature in Tamil and Malyalam
language. And it is heavily using the social media platform
of Facebook for propaganda and communication. Groups like Tamil
Ansar and Olivin Charathu (under the shade of Olive tree), Syria
through Indian Eyes regularly update information on AQ and its
activities in Syria in Tamil and Malayalam.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
October 3 |
Tamil Nadu |
The NIA detained a person from Tamil Nadu in
its probe into Islamic State (IS) modules in south India.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
October 5 |
Tirunelveli
/ Tamil Nadu |
The NIA has arrested a Tamil Nadu based man
who had joined Islamic State (IS), fought alongside the so called
caliphate for several months in Iraq and Syria and returned
to India to carry out attacks in India. The suspect, Subhani
Haji Moideen alias Abu Meer (31), who hails from Tirunelveli
in Tamil Nadu, sources say, stayed in Syria and Iraq for almost
four to five months, met senior leadership there and fought
with the allied forces and rebels. Official sources say Meer
also came in touch with latest IS module led by Majeed alias
Omar al-Hindi and is being questioned about his links.
Meer is second operative after Mumbai (Kalyan)
based Areeb Majeed to have fought alongside IS and arrested
by Indian agencies. Areeb Majeed was caught in October 2014
upon his return to India from Syria while Meer was here in Tamil
Nadu for last several months and his activities were being watched.
The NIA and states' police have arrested 60
IS operatives in India since 2014 out of which only Meer and
Majeed have been so called "warriors" on the ground of the deadliest
terrorist organisation.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
October 11 |
Alandur / Chennai
|
A 26-year-old man from West Bengal, identified
as Kariyudullah, was arrested along with FICN amounting INR
2,46,000 in Alandur in Chennai. Police believe he could be a
part of a network pushing counterfeit notes into circulation
in metro cities of India. These notes are printed in Pakistan
and smuggled through Bangladesh. It was disclosed that he was
staying with his associate Abdul Wahab, also from West Bengal
in a hut in Hazarkhana. Though the Police searched the place,
they could not trace Abdul Wahab. Kariyudullah said he brought
the notes from his native place from an agent on commission
base.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
October 12 |
Coimbatore
|
Following NIA inquiry, at least three people
suspected to have links with the Islamic State (IS) have been
picked up in Coimbatore. According to reports, the three suspects
have been taken to Kerala, where already six other suspected
IS were arrested. This new development has come after an NIA
search operation for the suspected IS people. The inquiry was
on for the past 11 days where search was on for 15 youngsters.
And now, out of those 15, 3 have been picked up by the Police.
As per reports, some alleged IS recruitment cells are running
as sleeper cells in the country where investigation agencies
are always in constant hunt to nab such people, in order to
eliminate their anti-national activities.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
October 17 |
Sevapet / Tiruvallur District
|
Police arrested a man, identified as Jamiano,
hailing from Bihar for circulating FICNs in the denominations
of 1, 000 at Sevapet near Tiruvallur (Tiruvallur District).
Police are checking if he was part of a racket involved in circulating
fake notes in the area. Police said a racket transporting FICN
from Pakistan to West Bengal and to other parts of the country
is in existence.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
October 23 |
Tamil Nadu
|
The Islamic State (IS) group's Indian operative
from Tamil Nadu, Subahani Haja Moideen, disclosed that one of
the 2015 Paris attackers was his "group leader," according to
the NIA investigations. During the interrogation, the IS operative
took the names of the militants responsible for the 2015 Paris
attacks including Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Salah
Abdeslam, and Omar Ismail Mostefei. Abaaoud was killed by the
French Police during an encounter and Abdeslam was caught in
March by the French authorities in Belgium. Moideen said that
one of these attackers was his leader, however, he did not mention
which one. The officials said that Moideen could be lying about
being connected with the Paris attackers and more probing is
underway.
He was recruited from Tamil Nadu and was radicalised
by IS through social media platforms. He left the country in
2015 and travelled from Chennai to Istanbul in Turkey on April
8. Moideen then headed to Syria with some more jihadi
recruits from Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries, according
to official sources. Moideen has fought alongside IS militants
in Iraq and is said to be the most "battle-hardened" Indian
recruit from the terrorist organisation until now. "Moideen
said during the time he crossed over to Iraq from Turkey and
his training, in which he was given religious lessons, taught
use of AK-47, grenade launchers, bomb making and use of machetes,
one of the Paris attackers/conspirators was the in charge of
the group," a security establishment official stated.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
November 28 |
Madurai District
|
Three suspected members of an outfit called
the 'Base Movement', which is linked to five blasts in courts
in South India since April 2016, were arrested by the NIA in
Madurai District. "In the last 24 hours, in a joint operation
with Tamil Nadu Police and Telangana Police, the NIA has apprehended
four youths for their involvement in blasts at …court complexes
in South India. During sustained examination, they have confessed
their involvement in these blasts," said a statement released
by the NIA. The three who have been arrested were identified
as Abbas Ali (27), Suleiman Mohd Abdullah (23) and Samsun Karim
Raja. The NIA said the fourth person, Mohammed Ayub Ali (25),
was being questioned. "Three have been arrested in Madurai.
Two more are being tracked even as one suspect is being questioned,"
said an unnamed officer. According to the NIA, the group was
led by Abdullah, who is from Madurai but lives in Chennai. Raja
and Abbas Ali are also from Madurai.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
November 29 |
Tamil Nadu
|
Continuing with its probe in the blasts outside
court premises in South India since April, 2016, NIA arrested
two more persons, identified as Mohammed Ayub Ali (25) and Shamsudeen
(25) for suspecting their involvement in the conspiracy to carry
out bomb explosions by a group sympathising with terror outfit
al-Qaeda. With recent arrest, the number of people arrested
in the case has gone to five. The NIA, along with Police forces
from Tamil Nadu and Telangana, had arrested three persons a
day earlier for the five bomb blast cases in court premises
of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka since April.
The NIA had arrested Abbas Ali, Dawood Suleiman
and Samsum Karim Raja, all residents of Tamil Nadu. The NIA
spokesman had claimed that the arrested accused "during sustained
interrogation confessed to their involvement in these blasts."
Ali, a school dropout, was working as a painter and also ran
a library in the name 'DarulIlm' at Madurai. Raja is a Commerce
graduate and runs a chicken broiler shop at KannimaraKoil street
in Madurai. Suleiman was working in a software firm. He was
the main leader of the terrorist group which was influenced
by the ideology of Osama bin Laden. The group had claimed responsibility
for these blasts and circulated pamphlets, pen drives and CDs
in the name of "The Base Movement", translation of the word
al Qaeda.
|
Non-violent |
16 |
November 30 |
Tamil Nadu
|
Tamil Nadu, followed by Kerala have emerged
as the new safe haven for Islamic terrorists operating from
South India, say senior intelligence officials based in Chennai.
They were reacting to the arrests of five suspected Islamic
terrorists from various places of Tamil Nadu over November 28-29.
Official sources confided that those arrested were conspiring
to unleash a series of terrorist activities including assassinations
all over India. "We have tracked strong undercurrents of secessionist
activities in Tamil Nadu and Kerala spearheaded by various Islamic
outfits. All these arrests have been made based on precise information
gathered by our moles," said a senior intelligence official.
He said all espionage agencies have increased the intensity
of monitoring the suspects. "All suspects are always on our
radars and hence there is nothing to panic," he said.
|
Statement |
2015
Sl. No.
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Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 12
|
Tamil Nadu
|
Tamil Nadu Police questioned four suspected
IM members, who have been arrested on charges of supplying bomb-making
material to different parts of the country. The Tamil Nadu Police
are ascertaining whether the accused supplied explosives for
the bombs on the Bengaluru-Guwahati Superfast Express train
in Chennai Railway Station last year. The twin blasts had occurred
on the train on May 1, 2014 at the Chennai Central railway station,
killing a software engineer on the spot.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
January 26 |
Tamil Nadu |
A Tamil language newspaper, Dinamalar
received a letter threatening an attack similar to the one on
the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. "We have
received the letter from the newspaper and a probe is on," a
senior Police official said. The letter, typed in English, says
"Yesterday-Paris Charlie Hebdo, Tomorrow - Dinamalar." The words
appear against the background of India's map. The letter was
sent through post by unidentified elements claiming to belong
to an outfit called "The Base Moment," and said to be based
at "3/10, Ukkadam, Kovai, Tamil Nadu, India." Below the map
is a picture of Osama bin Laden and the words "By al-Qaida,"
and some Arabic words appearing like a signature, the police
official said.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
February 13 |
Manapparai, Tiruchirapalli District
|
The counterfeit currency (CC) wing of CB-CID
Police, Trichy arrested a 44-year-old man, C Sakthivel for possessing
FICN worth around INR 198,000 in Manapparai in Tiruchirapalli
District of Tamil Nadu. Police seized a computer printer reportedly
used by him. During interrogation, he reportedly told Police
that a person called Mani was his mentor in the illegal business.
After learning the techniques, Sakthivel acted on his own. Police
said Sakthivel chose the industrial areas Karur, Tirupur, Erode
to circulate FICN.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
March 6 |
Chennai
|
NIA filed the charge sheet in a court in Chennai
in a case of alleged espionage and attempts to carry out sabotage
activities in India at the instigation of Pakistan. It was filed
at a NIA court against Thameem Ansari, a suspected operative
of ISI now on bail and a Sri Lankan national, Arun Selvarajan,
besides three others who are their handlers in Pakistan and
suspected to be based in Sri Lanka. "The offences against the
accused include those under UAPA, IPC and Official Secrets Act,"
Public Prosecutor for NIA cases, C S S Pillai stated. Raising
funds for terrorist act, conspiracy (Sections 17,18 Unlawful
Activities Act), sedition, criminal conspiracy (IPC, 121 A,
120 B), penalty for spying (Section 3, Official Secrets Act)
are among the major charges.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
March 19 |
Sukrawarpetta in Coimbatore
|
Three persons, identified as Khider Mohammed,
Sundara Raj and Balasubramaniam were arrested by Police at Sukrawarpetta
in Town Hall in Coimbatore along with FICN, worth INR 14,000.
All three men were booked under sections 489B (using as genuine,
forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes), 489C (possession
of forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes) among
others of the IPC.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
March 21 |
Pranmalai in Sivaganga District
|
A team of Police officials from Special Intelligence
Unit and 'Q' Branch arrested two persons, identified as S. Abbas
Mydeen (40) and M. Mubarak (22) from Melur in Madurai. The duo,
held under provisions of Explosives Act, and for criminal conspiracy,
was produced before the Judicial Magistrate-I, D. Thriveni,
who remanded them in judicial custody till April 1, 2015. "We
got an alert from our informants about their movements in Pranmalai
in Sivaganga District following which we picked them up. Upon
interrogation, they confessed to their involvement in some of
the explosive cases (reported in Madurai city, rural areas,
Sivaganga and Theni Districts). In other cases, their accomplices
were involved," a Police official said. The Police also took
them to Pranmalai hillock late on March 21 and seized a small
quantity of an explosive substance, timer devices, batteries,
few pieces PVC pipes among others from a cavern. "These are
remnants of the materials used for the explosives that were
found or blown off in various places in Madurai and neighbouring
districts," the official said.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
March 26 |
Chennai |
Police arrested a six member gang involved in
FICNs racket from an undisclosed location in Chennai in Tamil
Nadu along with FICN worth INR 311,000. Police said. They were
later remanded to judicial custody.
|
Non-violent
|
8 |
April 3 |
April 3 |
Chennai Police arrested a former cadre of banned
terrorist organisation Al-Umma in connection with the murder
of Hindu Munnani leader K P S Suresh Kumar in June 2014. An
investigator said Abdullah alias Mannadi Abdullah, was arrested
by a Police team led by Assistant Commissioner of Police A Rajendra
Kumar and Inspector K Pugazhenthi from a hideout in the suburbs.
Abdullah had funded the slaying of Suresh Kumar, secretary of
Hindu Munnani's Tiruvallur District unit. Police charged Abdullah
with murder and produced him before a magistrate who remanded
him in judicial custody. Investigators named Abdullah as accused
number 17 in the case. An investigating officer said Abdullah
was a key operative of Al-Umma, which the state government banned
after the 1998 Coimbatore serial bombings that left 58 people
dead and more than 200 injured.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
April 14 |
Chennai |
Four persons, hailing from West Bengal, were
arrested from an undisclosed location in Chennai along with
FICNs INR 53,500. Giving details, Police said one Saleem Sheikh
was held and on his information three others -- Ropan Ali, Rafool
Sheikh and Mithu Sheikh were later arrested. The head of the
gang, Samjad Sheikh is however absconding.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
April 15 |
Ramanathapuram
District |
Ramanathapuram District Police in Tamil Nadu
have stepped up vigil on the 276-km long coastline following
an alert from intelligence agencies that LeT, might sneak in
via sea route and carry out terror attacks. After receiving
the alert on April 10, Police have intensified patrolling and
night vigil at important landing points in Rameswaram, Thondi
and Kilakarai areas in coordination with the ICG and CSG, SP
N M Mylvahanan said.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
April 15 |
Chennai |
The office of DGP and Chennai Press Club have
received a letter allegedly sent by terror outfit IS threatening
to "shoot" at least ten RSS activists in the state and carry
out bomb blasts in the city next week, prompting Police to launch
a probe.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
April 16 |
Tamil Nadu |
According to NIA, the SIMI has been on revival
mode was planning setting up of cells in the states of South
India. They were constantly moving around the border areas as
they found it easier to escape between states, an NIA official
said. It has also been found that SIMI operatives after carrying
out the Chennai train blast had moved into the border area of
Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Investigations by the NIA have
revealed that these operatives had taken shelter in a place
called Tada which is along the AP-Tamil Nadu border.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
April 22 |
Chennai
|
UMHA suspects the SIMI members' involvement
in a series of incidents in different parts of the country,
including blasts at the Chennai railway station in May 2014,
the explosion in Bijnor and the blast in Roorkee. It is also
being suspected that the same module had carried out the blast
at Bengaluru in 2014 that had left a woman dead. NIA wants all
these cases shifted to the agency. UHM Rajnath Singh had written
letters to the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka last
month asking them to speed up investigations into the respective
terror cases in their states.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
April 24 |
Tamil Nadu
|
A high-level team, led by IG of Police (Coastal
Security) G. Suryaprakasha Rao, has completed a study on the
existing coastal security system and strategies adopted by Andhra
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Odisha. The study, which began on April
7 in Srikakulam District, covered nearly 3,000 kilometers in
the three States. The team documented strategies that were being
adopted by the States to prevent human trafficking and other
illegal activities on the sea route. "We visited nearly thirty
marine Police Stations and discussed the use of our technology
to guard the coastline with the authorities in Tamil Nadu and
Odisha...Talks with Tamil Nadu ADGP Sailendra Babu were fruitful
in sharing views on coastal security," Suryaprakasha Rao said.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
June 7 |
Tamil Nadu
|
Malaysian authorities have shared with India,
the interrogation and other details pertaining to a Sri Lankan
national, Mohammed Hussain, who had been arrested in Malaysia
on the charge of conspiring to carry out terror strikes on the
US and Israeli consulates in South India. The case was cracked
with the arrest of the Sri Lankan national Sakir Hussain on
April 29, 2014. The interrogation report suggests that Hussain
had admitted he was part of the conspiracy and had promised
Sakir Hussain, his compatriot, to help reach two suicide bombers
to the southern coast from Maldives, official sources said.
While Hussain, who has been convicted, is at present serving
a jail term in Tamil Nadu, co-accused Sulaiman has been deported
to Sri Lanka from Malaysian custody.
|
Non-violent |
16 |
June 23 |
Chennai
|
A city special court at Chennai canceled the
bail petition of Mohammad Salim, an associated of ISI operative
Sakir Hussain. Salim was arrested for possession of FICN that
added up to INR 250,000. Special Judge P Murugan said the charges
against Salim were "very serious in nature." He was alleged
to have committed a terrorist act, which threatened the economic
security and monetary stability of the country.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
June 29 |
Chennai
|
Police recovered a bunch of FICNs dumped inside
a waste bin near the international departure terminal at Chennai
airport in Tamil Nadu. A passenger noticed a torn currency note
inside a waste bin kept close to Gate 4 at the International
Terminal. He informed Police and moved on. A Police team examined
the waste bin and recovered at least 15 FICNs in the denominations
of INR 1
|
Non-violent |
18 |
July 20 |
Ramanathapuram
District |
Police arrested a former militant of the proscribed
LTTE, identified as K Krishnakumar (39) and recovered 75 cyanide
capsules, 300 grams of cyanide, four GSP sets and seven mobile
phones at coastal Uchipulli in Ramanathapuram District of Tamil
Nadu (India). Acting on a tip-off, a Special Branch team, led
by Inspector of Police Vellaiyappan arrested the Sri Lankan
Tamil along with two local Tamils R Sasikumar (25) and N Rajendran
(44), who reportedly brought him from Madurai bus stand in a
car to Uchipulli, Police said. According to report, the seizure
of the suicide pills carried by the LTTE militants tied around
their necks triggered speculation that the LTTE was trying to
revive the movement after it was defeated by the Sri Lankan
forces in the civil war, which ended in 2009. The Police also
seized seven mobile phones, INR 46,200 in Indian currency, LKR
19,300 in Sri Lankan currency, Indian and Sri Lankan driving
licences from the Lankan Tamil, K Krishnakumar, who had served
in the LTTE in the 1990s and came to Tamil Nadu in 2009.
|
Non-violent |
19 |
July 21 |
Ramanathapuram
District |
One of the two Sri Lankan Tamils arrested on
July 20 along with communication gadgets and cyanide in Ramanathapuram
District of Tamil Nadu (India), has been identified as Krishnakumar,
a close associate of slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran,
said the Indian Police. A top Police officer said that sleuths
from IB, Tamil Nadu 'Q Branch' Police, and Special Intelligence
Unit are now interrogating the LTTE militant, arrested along
with two others during a routine vehicle check at Uchipuli in
the Ramanathapuram District. Police also said all coastal Districts
in the state had been alerted to monitor for movement of members
of LTTE and checkposts asked to be extra vigilant. It was suspected
Krishnakumar would have arrived in the country in the immediate
aftermath of the decimation of LTTE and killing of Prabhakaran
by Sri Lankan SFs in 2009, Police said. The arrested were identified
as Krishnakumar, Rajendran, also a Sri Lankan national, and
Sasikumar, a local who drove the car. Krishnakumar was planning
to go to Sri Lanka by illegal ferry when he was arrested. Sasikumar,
the driver of the car, and Rajendran, an alleged 'ganja' (drug)
peddler residing in Uchipuli, were arrested for providing shelter
to the militant of a banned organisation, Police said. Police
said Krishnakumar and Rajendran could be sent to a special camp
(for former Tamil militants) after interrogation.
Tamil Nadu Police suspect that the arrested
LTTE operative was possibly smuggling materials like cyanide
capsules and GPS equipment to some people in Northern Province
of Sri Lanka. Police said, Krishnakumar had been staying in
Trichy and had lot of contacts at refugee camps in Chennai and
Trichy. Krishnakumar was trying to leave the country as his
marriage was getting fixed in Jaffna. But he could not go legally
since he feared that his name was in the LTTE cadre list and
he may be detained as soon as he landed in Sri Lanka. Krishnakumar
was transporting these materials to some people in Jaffna and
Police sources speculated that there is some regrouping of LTTE
going on in Sri Lanka, though they suffered a fatal defeat in
the civil war of 2009. The exact sources who provided him cyanide
and the people to whom he was transporting the materials will
be known after thorough investigation, Police said.
|
Non-violent |
20 |
July 24 |
Chennai |
The Madras High Court Bench set aside an "illegal
conviction and seven-year sentence" imposed by a trial court
on three people, alleged to be LTTE sympathisers, on charges
of conspiring to smuggle acetone, glycerine, formaldehyde and
dicyanamide to Sri Lanka for making explosive substances and
indulging in unlawful activities in 2008, reports Daily Mirror.
Disposing of appeals filed by them, Justice S. Nagamuthu ordered
retrial in the case since the 'Q' branch Police and the lower
court had made "grave mistakes" in the trial that led to their
conviction on March 4, 2015. He pointed out that there were
inconsistencies between charges framed against the accused and
the charges under which they had been convicted.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
July 26 |
Tiruchirappalli
International Airport / Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) District |
The Tiruchirappalli City Police arrested a former
member of the LTTE, identified as A. Kumaraguru (39) at the
Tiruchirappalli International Airport in Tiruchirappalli (Trichy)
District of Tamil Nadu before he could board the flight to Malaysia.
Police also arrested G. Thirumurugan (30), a native of Uppur
in Ramanathapuram District and Mubarak Ali for assisting him
acquire an Indian passport. Police said Kumaraguru was a member
of the LTTE from 1992 to 1997 and had lost his right leg while
fighting the Sri Lankan SFs during that period. He was lodged
in the Sri Lankan jail from 2009 to 2012. According to Police,
Kumaraguru came to Chennai in July 2014 for treatment and stayed
there for nearly a year. He was native of Kodikamam village
near Jaffna. The sources said Kumaraguru got an Indian passport
under the fictitious name of A. Arokiadasan giving a fake address
in Pamban in Ramanathapuram District as his place of stay. The
plan of Kumaraguru was to go to Malaysia and from thereon to
Canada and later to Switzerland to make a livelihood through
the refugee grant given by that country.
|
Non-violent |
22 |
July 28 |
Tiruchirapalli / Tamil Nadu
|
Investigators of the Tamil Nadu 'Q' branch Police
interrogated LTTE) operative A Kumaraguru, who Police arrested
at Tiruchirapalli International Airport in Tamil Nadu on July
26 when he attempted to flee to Switzerland with a fake passport.
Officers of the Police's special anti-terror wing said they
questioned Kumaraguru about his links to an arrested member
of the rebels, Krishnakumar, and his associates in Ramanathapuram
(Tamil Nadu). Investigators said Kumaraguru lost his right leg
in the civil war in Sri Lanka and used a prosthetic limb. Kumaraguru
and his wife Sudharsini arrived in Chennai in 2014 and lived
in Choolaimedu, where a member of a Tamil outfit gave them shelter.
|
Non-violent |
23 |
July 31 |
Erwadi / Ramanathapuram District
|
Two persons, identified as K Nellai Ibrahim
and S Sarbuddin were arrested for allegedly attempting to deposit
FICNs in the denomination of INR 1,000 in SBI branch at Erwadi
in Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu. Ibrahim had mixed
five fake notes while claiming to deposit INR 20,000 and Sarbuddin
included one counterfeit along with 14 genuine notes, Police
said. Later 30 FICN of INR 1,000 denomination were also seized
from them.
|
Non-violent |
24 |
August 23 |
Ramanathapuram District
|
Four persons, identified as Marx, Robert, Murugan
and Yasser Arafa were arrested under the National Security Act
for allegedly trying to circulate Pakistan-printed FICNs in
Ramanathapuram District and some other parts of Tamil Nadu.
Counterfeit notes were also seized from them. Murugan had allegedly
brought the FICN from Sri Lanka and had attempted to circulate
it.
|
Non-violent |
25 |
September
21 |
Chennai |
There are at least 250 vital installations,
including malls, places of worship, hotels and high-rise buildings,
in Chennai city that are vulnerable to a terror attack, the
Tamil Nadu commando force has found. These are part of the list
of sensitive and vital installations in the state the force
prepared in coordination with the NSG.
|
Threat |
26 |
September
26 |
Keezhakkarai/ Ramanathapuram District
|
Police arrested a suspected kingpin of FICN
racket and seized counterfeit currency notes at Keezhakkarai
of Ramanathapuram District. After a trail of investigation,
a special Police team arrested Abdul Rahman. Fake currency notes
in the denomination of INR 500 were seized from him, which were
very high quality with texture and font sizes matching with
those of real currencies.
|
Non-violent |
27 |
October 9 |
Ramanathapuram
District |
Ramanathapuram District 'D-team' constituted
exclusively to deal with drug traffickers and maintain surveillance
on former offenders neutralised a new drug trafficking network
after arresting two accused, as Maiazhagu and Samidurai. It
has also launched a hunt for three others, including two persons
from Kerala. The local smugglers, who were so far dependent
on 'sources' in Sri Lanka for carrying out smuggling activities,
appeared to have established their own network as Bakiaraj from
Danushkodi, an important link in the network, had gone to Sri
Lanka to receive the contraband, SP N.M. Mylvahanan has said.
|
Non-violent |
28 |
October 19 |
Ramanathapuram
District |
ADGP, Coastal Security Group, C Sylendra Babu,
who inspected the security arrangements in coastal areas in
Rameswaram in Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu said the
vigil has been intensified. The Police force will get more advanced
patrol vessels for surveillance, he said. He also said that
out of 30 new marine Police stations announced by the State
Government, 11 stations have started to function and the rest
will become functional shortly. Subsequently, the strength of
coastal security group is also increased from 200 personnel,
he said
|
Non-violent |
29 |
November 3 |
Vedaranyam /Nagapattinam District
|
ADGP (Coastal Security) C Sylendra Babu visited
Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam District and reviewed coastal security
measures. The ADGP also inspected an unmanned boat that was
washed ashore in the area a month ago. The CSG of the state-of-the-art
patrol boats and fast craft used for surveillance in the coastal
stretch of this. Later, the ADGP said the focus of CSG was not
just coastal security, but it also extended to protecting the
coastal eco-system, especially the fauna and flora.
|
Non-violent |
30 |
December 10 |
NS |
A youth hailing from Tamil Nadu, suspected to
have been in touch with Islamic State (IS) recruiters and propagandists,
is set to be deported back to India today, said sources in central
intelligence agencies. Although, the agency officials are tight-lipped
about the country where he came under the scanner of law enforcement
agencies, sources pointed out that he was moved to a third country
from where his deportation has been planned. "This is good news
for us as it shows that the youth are getting disenchanted and
disillusioned from the ISIS after seeing its actual character
from close quarters. They are also feeling the pain of extreme
racism at the hands of their Arab handlers that goes totally
against the egalitarian approach of Islam. We hope to see more
such desertions," said sources.
|
Non-violent |
31 |
December 11 |
NS |
As reported earlier, the identity of a 23-year-old
computer engineer from Chennai, who was trying to enter Syria
to join the Islamic State (IS), has been revealed as Mohammad
Nasir, and it has been stated that on December 10, he was deported
from Sudan. Nasir, had reportedly travelled to Sudan to meet
an IS recruiter who was facilitating his journey to Syria. The
NIA has registered a case against Nasir, and is set to take
him into custody.
|
Non-violent |
32 |
December 11 |
Delhi |
The 23-year-old software engineer from Tamil
Nadu who was detained and later deported from Sudan for trying
to join Islamic State (IS) had worked for eight months in an
IT company in Chennai. NIA arrested Mohammed Nasir soon after
he landed at Delhi airport. He hails from Tirunelveli but had
worked in Chennai and Dubai. He was living with his parents
in Dubai when he tried to join the terror outfit. A Police officer
said, "Investigation with his relatives showed that he had spent
time in Chennai working before moving to UAE. His expertise
was in managing database."
|
Non-violent |
33 |
December 26 |
Vellore |
Vellore Police arrested a man, identified as
Mahadab Kaviraj hailing from Nadia District of West Bengal,
on charges of possessing FICN with a face value of INR 50,000.
The arrested was identified as Mahadab Kaviraj from NadIa district,
West Bengal.
|
Non-violent |
2014
Sl. No.
|
Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 2
|
Tamil Nadu
|
Police arrested a gang of three members at Adam
Sahib Street in Royapuram (Chennai, Tamil Nadu) for circulating
FICNs of INR 1,000 denomination for the last six months in different
parts of Chennai, including shopping hubs in T. Nagar and Purasawalkam.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
January 6 |
Kadathur /
Dharmapuri / Tamil Nadu |
Two country made bombs with detonators were
found in a gunny bag in Kodiyur village near Maniyambadi in
Kadathur block (Dharmapuri District) of Tamil Nadu.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
January 8 |
Coimbatore |
Two persons were arrested along with FICN with
the face value of INR 19,500 from Coimbatore city of same District.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
January 22 |
Tamil Nadu |
According to intelligence sources, on January
22, 2014 a Tamil Nadu-born person had left for Syria to fight
alongside the Islamic fundamentalists. In 2013, the same person
had trained with the Chechen jihadis and had recruited two Chennai
college students for Jihad in Syria as well.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
January 23 |
Chennai |
Two persons were arrested for circulating FICN
with the face value of INR 35,000 in Chennai.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
February 7 |
Tamil Nadu |
A hi-tech vessel traffic management system was
inaugurated at V O C Port in Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu).
|
Non-violent |
7 |
February 20 |
Tamil Nadu |
Two persons, identified as Jeevan Prakash and
Ramesh were arrested from a bank in Gangadeeswarar Koil Street
in Purasawalkam in Chennai for circulating FICN with a face
value of INR 11,000.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
February 23 |
Tamil Nadu |
A team of Kerala and Tamil Nadu Police arrested
a key suspect, K Sahul Hameed alias Paravi Badusha wanted
in connection with a bomb blast on April 17, 2013, outside a
BJP in Bangalore (Karnataka), from his hideout in Anchal in
Punalur of Kollam District. Police also seized a pistol and
17 kg of explosive substances from him.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
March 2 |
Tamil Nadu |
Police arrested four people, identified as Shanmugham,
Murugesan, Subramani and Thangarak and seized 250 gelatin sticks
and 150 detonators from an undisclosed location of Tamil Nadu.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
March 11 |
Chennai |
FICN in denominations of 500 and 1000, amounting
to INR 5,62,00,00 were seized from a 49-year-old man, identified
as Ashok Kumar by a Police patrol team in Flower Bazaar in Chennai.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
March 24 |
Tamil Nadu |
All special division CID units in Tamil Nadu
have been urged to keep tabs on activities of suspected fundamentalists
following the arrest of Waqas and his accomplices.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
April 30 |
Chennai |
A day after the arrest of Sakir Hussain, a suspected
ISI agent from Sri Lanka, the Tamil Nadu 'Q' Branch Police arrested
two more people from Chennai.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
May1 |
Chennai |
One passenger, identified as Swathi died and
nine others were injured in a bomb blast in the Guwahati-Bangalore
Express train stationed at the Chennai Central Station.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
May 1 |
Cuddalore |
The Rajasthan ATS arrested a suspected IM operative,
Ashraf Ali from Chidambaram town in Cuddalore District.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
May 5 |
Chennai |
The Tamil Nadu Police told at a court in Egmore,
Chennai that suspected Pakistan's ISI agent Sakir Hussian, a
Sri Lankan national, arrested from Chennai was working on a
plan to sabotage the Indian Navy bases at Kochi and Visakhapatnam.
Meanwhile, court remanded Sakir Hussain to three days Police
custody
|
Non-violent |
16 |
May 6 |
Rameswaram |
A new security system has been put in place
and CSG deployed off Rameswaram to completely block infiltration
through sea. Jyoti Basu, in-charge of CSG, Rameswaram said that
CSG has been deployed in the area after police received information
that ISI agents could infiltrate India from Sri Lanka via Palk
Straits.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
May 7 |
Tamil Nadu |
A forensic examination of the remains of IEDs
collected from the two coaches of Bangalore-Guwahati Express
have revealed that the explosives were similar to the Patna
(Bihar) bombs, which exploded on October 27, 2013. In both the
incidents, analogue clocks were used as timers, a senior official
said.
The NSG has reported to the MHA that the bombs
weighing 1.5 kilogram, had been kept in a bag and the primary
explosives used in the IED was ammonium nitrate mixed with petrol.
|
Non-violent |
18 |
May 8 |
Tamil Nadu |
Tamil Nadu DGP K Ramanujam announced a reward
of INR 5,00,000 to anyone providing information that leads to
the identification of the culprits behind the twin blasts at
Chennai Central on May 1.
|
Non-violent |
19 |
May 8 |
Chennai |
A Sri Lankan national, Zakir Hussain who was
earlier arrested on April 29 and suspected to be an agent of
an ISI operative, was remanded in judicial custody till May
13, 2014 by a magistrate court in Chennai.
|
Non-violent |
20 |
May 8 |
Rameswaram |
Three Naval patrol vessels arrived at the Navy
jetty at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu in the backdrop of information
that Pakistan's ISI could infiltrate India from Sri Lanka through
the sea.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
May 13 |
Chennai |
The court of XIII metropolitan magistrate in
Egmore (Chennai) extended the judicial custody of suspected
ISI agent Sakir Hussain by 15 days.
|
Non-violent |
22 |
May 14 |
Chennai |
A Sri Lankan national, an associate of suspected
ISI agent Sakir Hussian, was arrested in Malaysia is believed
to be involved in a plan to attack foreign consulates in Chennai
and Bangalore, India.
|
Non-violent |
23 |
May 19 |
Vellore |
SID of CB-CID investigating the twin bomb blasts
on Bangalore-Guwahati Express in Chennai Central Railway Station
on May 1, interrogated the terror suspects 'Police' Fakruddin,
Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik in the Vellore Central Prison.
|
Non-violent |
24 |
May 27 |
Tamil Nadu |
Tamil Nadu Police obtained an arrest warrant
for a Sri Lankan national and suspected operative of ISI, Mohammad
Hossaini, arrested by the Malaysian Police on May 14. Investigators
said Hossaini was a close aide of Sakir Hussain, another Sri
Lankan recruited by the ISI, who had been arrested by the Tamil
Nadu Police on April 29, 2014.
|
Non-violent |
25 |
May 28 |
Tamil Nadu |
Police teams investigation May 1, 2014 Chennai
train blasts ruled out the involvement of the SIMI module headed
by Patna blasts-accused Haidar Ali. While Ali and his three
associates, arrested by NIA on May 19, denied involvement, their
claims have been corroborated with their location being found
in Jharkhand at the time of the Chennai blasts.
The other suspect in the case, Tamil Nadu-based
terror outfit Al Umma, is also being ruled out.
|
Non-violent |
26 |
May 28 |
Tamil Nadu |
Tamil Nadu Police approached senior CBI officers
in Delhi, to extradite from Malaysia a suspected operative of
ISI, Mohammad Hossaini, who was part of a plot to carry out
attacks in Chennai and Bangalore.
|
Non-violent |
27 |
May 30 |
Tamil Nadu |
Kerala Police seized over 200kg of ammonium
nitrate and over 2,000 gelatine sticks from the outhouse of
the residence of Binu of Arattukuzhi near Vellarada in Thiruvananthapuram
District. The explosives were brought from Trichy in Tamil Nadu.
Besides Binu, Police have booked one more person, Vinod in the
case.
|
Non-violent |
28 |
May 31 |
Chennai |
NIA arrested a native of West Bengal, identified
as Muhammed Inshan Ali who is an accused in the Manjeri (Malappuram
District of Kerala) FICN case from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
|
Non-violent |
29 |
May 31 |
Tamil Nadu |
Tamil Nadu Police secured a non-bailable arrest
warrant against Mohammad Hossaini, who was arrested in Malaysia
for alleged conspiracy to carry out terror strikes on the US
and Israeli consulates in South India, which was sent through
diplomatic channels to France-based Interpol headquarters for
issuance of Red Corner Notice.
|
Non-violent |
30 |
June 3 |
Chennai |
Police found that a private bank in Karapakkam
in Kancheepuram District was involved in circulation of FICNs
after they questioned a woman who tried to deposit FICN at a
bank branch in K K Nagar in Chennai.
|
Non-violent |
31 |
June 4 |
Chennai |
Crime Branch of CID neutralised an inter-state
FICN racket after arresting two persons, Rafiq and Shahul Hameed
in Chennai. Police officers said they seized FICN with a face
value of INR 8,90,000 and a country made gun with two loaded
magazines from them after they smuggled them in from Kolkata
by train on June 3.
|
Non-violent |
32 |
June 5 |
Chennai |
The blast on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express
train at Chennai Central railway station on May 1, 2014 was
a sabotage, says a statutory inquiry conducted by Commissioner
of Railway Safety, Southern Circle.
|
Non-violent |
33 |
June 5 |
Chennai |
A special team of the CB-CID of Tamil Nadu Police
is in West Bengal on the trail of Fakhrul Islam, the suspected
kingpin in the FICN racket that was earlier neutralised on June
4 in Chennai. Islam, Police found, did not have a record in
West Bengal or in any other state.
|
Non-violent |
34 |
June 10 |
Tamil Nadu |
A top Delhi
Police officer revealed that firearms from eastern Bihar's Munger
District are the preferred choice of criminals from Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka, Orissa, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi,
Haryana and Bihar. |
Non-violent |
35 |
June 11 |
Chennai |
Sources said that two men, Rafiq and Shahul
Hameed arrested on June 4 for bringing FICN to Chennai turned
out to be gun pushers too. Police have also picked up a man
called Fakhrul Ismail in Kolkata believed to be the kingpin
of the gang.
|
Non-violent |
36 |
June 11 |
Chennai |
Terrorists backed by ISI were planning to target
port, central railway station and airports in Chennai and Bangalore,
as per revelations by ISI agent Mohammed Sakir Husain arrested
at Chennai in April 2014.
|
Non-violent |
37 |
June 23 |
Tamil Nadu |
Detectives of CID's SID are working on a detailed
plan to locate and dismantle Al Umma's sleeper cells in Tamil
Nadu. The plan is based on revelations by Al Umma operatives
'Police' S Fakrudeen, Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik. Information
gathered from them during interrogation by a team of SID investigators
in Bangalore, where they are being held in Police custody, has
worried senior officers. An officer said Al Umma's network in
the state was wider and their members more entrenched than police
earlier believed.
|
Non-violent |
38 |
June 25 |
Tiruttani,
Tiruvallur District |
Tamil Nadu Police arrested five people and neutralised
a FICN racket in Tiruttani in Tiruvallur District. The arrested
persons were found to be printing FICN in denominations of 100,
500 and 1,000 using sophisticated printing machines. Police
seized FICN adding up to INR 3,25,000 from them.
|
Non-violent |
39 |
June 27 |
Tamil Nadu |
Police arrested Abdul Karim alias Palani
Babu, an Al Umma cadre and accused in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb
blasts case, along with his associate in connection with the
June 18 murder of Hindu Munnani leader, Suresh Kumar. Karim
was among the 80 accused in the serial blasts case released
by a court in 2007. An Al-Umma activist, he stayed with prime
accused S A Baasha in Chennai.
|
Non-violent |
40 |
June 28 |
Tamil Nadu |
NIA has taken over the investigation into the
case of alleged plot by Pakistan-based terror group to carry
out suicide attacks on the US and Israeli consulates in South
India. The probe was handed over by the Tamil Nadu Police so
that the complete conspiracy hatched overseas including in Sri
Lanka and Malaysia could be unraveled, official sources said.
Besides these two countries, investigation would also be carried
out in Maldives from where the suicide attackers were supposed
to take a boat ride to reach a coast in Kerala, the sources
said.
|
Non-violent |
41 |
June 28 |
Tamil Nadu |
Administrative authorities of Tamil Nadu and
Police have decided set up a panel to strengthen security along
the coast to prevent terrorist elements coming from Sri Lanka,
and other illegal maritime activities. The authorities and the
Police have taken the decision to set up a standing committee
comprising representatives from various security agencies to
share intelligence, strengthen coastal security, prevent smuggling
and human trafficking through sea route was taken at a meeting
last week.
|
Non-violent |
42 |
July 1 |
Tamil Nadu |
According to IB reports, Sri Lanka and Maldives
have been named as FICN's two new places of origin, and Chennai
in Tamil Nadu as the point of arrival. An IB official stated,
"Until now, FICN was known to come from Bangladesh and Nepal.
The addition of two more neighbours to this list is rather worrying".
Once the notes are offloaded at Chennai, they make their way
to other states.
|
Non-violent |
43 |
July 6 |
Coimbatore |
Crime Branch of Coimbatore unit, arrested five
people along with FICN with a face value of INR 1,00,000. According
to Police, one person, A Sudhakar, 30, was arrested from Andipalayam
village in Namakkal District. Separately, two people were also
arrested: Vignesh, 26, from Gupta Nagar at Sangakiri and Thomas,
26, from Attur in Salem District. Police, however refused to
reveal the names of two other accused.
|
Non-violent |
44 |
July 12 |
Tamil Nadu |
As investigations into July 10, Pune blast progress,
agencies are worried about two persons from Thane who are reported
to have left for Iraq to fight along ISIS about a year ago.
These two boys are part of the 18 Indians learnt to be fighting
in Iraq and Syria and are being tracked by intelligence agencies.Sources
within the security establishment say most of these 18 hail
from south India. Some of those who have been identified belong
to Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. It is not known whether
any of them has returned but such exodus from south India has
become a cause for worry for the agencies.
|
Non-violent |
45 |
July 17 |
Chennai |
Two suspected cadres of Al Umma, identified
as Naseer and Allauddin were arrested from a hideout in Chennai.
They are arrested in the June 18 case regarding murder of Hindu
Munnani leader, Suresh Kumar. The killing, Police believe, was
because of a hate speech Suresh had delivered against the Muslim
community at a public meeting in December 2013.
|
Non-violent |
46 |
July 18 |
Coimbatore |
Two people, identified as G Jayaraj and N Ramanujam
were arrested by the Crime Branch-Counterfeit Currency Wing,
Coimbatore unit near Coimbatore railway junction, along with
FICN with a face value of INR 26,000. The duo was remanded to
judicial custody. According to Police, Ramanujam was assigned
to design the currency by the gang. After designing the currency
he gave it to Jayaraj.
|
Non-violent |
47
|
July 22 |
Chennai |
One person, identified as Rafeeq, an agent dealing
with FICN in Chennai, Tamil Nadu was arrested by the NIA.
|
Non-violent |
48
|
July 24 |
Chennai |
Two persons, identified as Suresh Kumar and
Hitesh Kumar, were arrested in the Flower bazaar area of Chennai
along with FICN with a face value of INR 100,000. The notes
turned out to be photocopies of INR 1,000 denomination. A few
cellphones and laptops were seized from them.
|
Non-violent |
49
|
July 28 |
Tamil Nadu |
Amir Zubair Siddiqui, a Pakistani diplomat named
as the person managing ISI activities in India from Sri Lanka,
was on the radar of Indian intelligence agencies since 2012,
He was first booked by the Tamil Nadu Police after they picked
up a suspected ISI agent, Thameem Ansari, in September 2012.
Siddiqui is said to have provided an ATM card to Ansari and
sent money to him from Colombo.
|
Non-violent |
50
|
July 29 |
Chennai |
Hindu Munnani's headquarters at Chintadripet
in Chennai received a letter, which threatened to kill Hindu
leaders who make inflammatory speeches against Prophet Muhammad.
The letter, written in Tamil, mentioned the first letters of
Hindu leaders in Districts of Chennai, Sivaganga, Coimbatore,
Trichy, Virudhunagar and Tirunelveli and threatened to kill
them. Police said the letter had been posted from Palakkad in
Kerala and they were trying to trace the sender.
|
Non-violent |
51
|
August 2 |
Tamil Nadu |
Tamil youths numbering around 20, wearing black
T-shirts with 'ISIS' printed on them and posing in front of
a mosque, has gone viral on social media, creating an alarm
in the intelligence wing of the Tamil Nadu State Police.
|
Non-violent |
52
|
Non-violent |
Ramanathapuram
District |
Police arrested two youth, M Abdul Rahman and
Rilvan from Thondi in Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu
after a photo of a group of youth wearing the t-shirts printed
with slogans supporting Islamic State (IS) surfaced on a social
networking site.
|
Non-violent |
53
|
August 6 |
August 6 |
Police arrested a man, identified as S Faizur
Rahman from Tiruppur District of Tamil Nadu on charges of ordering
and procuring t-shirts printed with slogans supporting Islamic
State (IS). This is the third such arrest made.
|
Non-violent |
54
|
August 9 |
Tamil Nadu |
IB launched a counter-radicalisation effort
to neutralise the influence of radical elements in the wake
of growing support to IS across India. The move got fresh impetus
after some youth from Tamil Nadu and J&K displayed the IS flag
and sported T-shirts with its logo. They were influenced by
IS 'chief' Abu-bakr Al-Baghdadi, who has called for establishing
global Caliphate, inviting Muslim youth, essentially Sunnis
from across the world, to join Jihad.
|
Non-violent |
55 |
August 13 |
Coimbatore
|
At least six persons, identified as Saddam Hussain,
Abdul Zuan, Rehmatullah Ali, Abdul Rasheed, Mohammed Azharuddin
and Abdul Rehman, were arrested for plotting to kill Hindu Makkal
Katchi leaders from Sultan Mosque in Rathina Sabapathi Puram
area of Coimbatore District. Police said that one of the accused
Abdul Rehman was found to be a former SIMI member, Saddam Hussain
and three others were youth members of PFI.
|
Non-violent |
56 |
August 16 |
Tamil Nadu |
Tamil Nadu Police and intelligence sleuths are
trying to trace the person or persons who uploaded on YouTube
a Tamil sub-titled video of a speech of Abu Muslim, a Canadian
who died fighting for IS in Syria.
|
Non-violent |
57 |
August 26 |
Tamil Nadu |
Sources said that IS, in a deadly pursuit to
establish an Islamic Caliphate, is recruiting poor Muslims in
Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and J&K. The several
security agencies including RAW and NIA have said that more
than 100 Indian men could have already joined the IS in Iraq
and these IS recruits could be used to strike terror in India
once the war in Iraq and Syria ends. Sources also said that
an IM man who is declared as wanted by the NIA could be recruiting
for the IS.
|
Non-violent |
58 |
August 26 |
Salem district |
A large cache of arms including spent shells
of 245 grenades and 28 rockets, believed to have been used by
the LTTE in the 1980s have been unearthed in a reserved forest
at Kolathur near Mettur in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. It
is believed that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and his cadres
had used this Kolathur camp for training purpose during 1984-86.
|
Non-violent |
59 |
September
10 |
Chennai |
A Sri Lankan national, Arun Selvarajan was arrested
by NIA, in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) for spying in India on behalf
of Pakistan's ISI.
|
Non-violent |
60 |
September
10 |
Madurai |
According to Police, FICN in denominations of
INR 1,000 and INR 500 with a face value of INR 20,000 have been
detected in cash sent from nationalised banks to the RBI zonal
office in Madurai (Tamil Nadu).
|
Non-violent |
61 |
September
17 |
Tamil Nadu |
Following the arrest of Arun Selvarajan, (on
September 10) who is suspected to be an ISI agent, Tamil Nadu
'Q' branch sleuths have started enumerating Sri Lankans staying
in Tamil Nadu. Police sources said there are about 65,000 Sri
Lankan Tamil refugees in the 114 camps in the state. There are
more than 12,000 Sri Lankan Tamils with passports settled outside
the camps.
|
Non-violent |
62 |
September
18 |
Tamil Nadu |
Officers of the NIA are interrogating a woman
student of a dental college after Sri Lankan ISI agent Arun
Selvarajan, revealed about his relationship with her and his
accomplices in Tamil Nadu. Investigating officers have taken
in the woman for questioning as well as another of Selvarajan's
associates, an undergraduate student at a top college in the
city.
|
Non-violent |
63 |
September
23 |
Chennai |
NIA officials produced a suspected ISI agent,
Arun Selvarajan, before special court judge in Chennai (Tamil
Nadu). He was remanded in judicial custody.
|
Non-violent |
64 |
September
25 |
Thiruvallur
District |
Suspected ISI operatives Arun Selvarajan (arrested
on September 10, 2014), Sakir Hussain (arrested on April 29,
2014), Sivabalan (arrested on May 1, 2014), Mohammad Salim (arrested
on May 1, 2014) and Rafiq (arrested on January 16, 2005) were
produced before a Poonamallee special court in Thiruvallur District
which extended their custody and remanded them in Puzhal prison.
|
Non-violent |
65 |
September
25 |
Thiruvallur
District |
Two suspected Al-Umma operatives (arrested on
August 6, 2014), who were arrested for their alleged role in
the murders of a few leaders of Hindu organisations in the state,
were produced before the Poonamallee court and their remand
was extended.
|
Non-violent |
66 |
September
26 |
Chennai |
An Indian tribunal headed by Justice G P Mittal
that was set up to judicially scrutinize the ban on the LTTE
recorded the evidence presented by the UMHA in support of a
notification it issued proscribing the outfit for five years
from May 14, 2014. The notification banning LTTE cited threat
to India's sovereignty as a reason.
|
Non-violent |
67 |
October 8 |
Tamil Nadu |
The CID officers claimed that the terror links
of Burdwan blast seem to have spread across the country to J&K,
Mumbai and Tamil Nadu. DIG of CID Dilip Adak said "It seems
Shakil and his associates in Burdwan made and received several
calls to and from Tamil Nadu, Mumbai and J&K barely 48 hours
before the blast on the morning of October 2." Another investigating
officer said "We are now certain that Bangladeshi outfit JMB
is involved in the crime. Shakil and his wife are members of
the outfit. Analysing these phone calls, we are trying to find
out whether other outfits like IM also involved."
|
Non-violent |
68 |
October 10 |
Chennai |
The NIA has been granted three days custody
of Arun Selvarajan, a suspected ISI spy who was arrested last
month in Chennai by a special Court in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
NIA sought custody of Selvarajan for the second time, submitting
a need to further interrogate him on details of his activities
and of his links with the Pakistan's intelligence agency.
|
Non-violent |
69 |
October 11 |
Tamil Nadu |
The NIA's probe into the Burdwan blast is pointing
to a bigger plot extending not just to neighbouring Assam, but
also to J&K and the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The NIA has, based on leads gathered from the women arrested
from the Burdwan blast site, picked up a suspect from J&K, a
construction worker belonging to West Bengal. An official said
that "Phone records reveal that they had contacts in almost
all the major megacities, also in South India. We will have
to verify the antecedents of each and every contact. Six of
the Assam-based suspects who were in touch with the two men
killed in the blast have already been arrested."
|
Non-violent |
70 |
October 14 |
Chennai |
Another NIA team questioned three suspects,
including an alleged ISI conduit in Chennai, Tamil Nadu after
the agency found uncanny similarities in the IEDs that exploded
in Burdwan and the May 1 blasts on Bangalore-Guwahati Express
at Chennai central station.
|
Non-violent |
71 |
October 24 |
Chennai |
The NIA filed a chargesheet in a Chennai court
against the Sri Lankan national Sakir Hussain and two others
for conducting espionage on behalf of Pakistan's ISI and plotting
to attack Israeli and US consulates in Chennai and Bangalore
The chargesheet has cited as evidence photos of vital installations
in India, emails exchanged between the accused and a Pakistani
embassy official in Colombo, Sri Lanka and forensic analysis
of FICNs recovered from the accused at the time of arrest. The
Chargesheet has also listed 40 witnesses. Sources said that
the Sri Lankan national was hired by Pakistan embassy official
Aamir Zubair Siddiqui who had been building a network of spies
from the country to conduct espionage in India. Hussain had,
in turn, hired Siva Balan and Mohammed Saleem who were arrested
with FICN. There are a total of nine accused in the case including
the Pakistan embassy official.
|
Non-violent |
72 |
November 6 |
Chennai |
A top KTF terrorist, Ramandeep Singh alias
Goldy wanted for April 20, 2010 Patiala blast and the murder
of Rulda Singh, head of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat on July 28, 2009
was arrested by Punjab Police in Chennai after he was deported
by Malaysian authorities. He will soon be produced before the
concerned court. The Counter Intelligence Wing of the Punjab
Police has started tracking wanted terrorists who are staying
abroad and in this process, intelligence leads about the whereabouts
of Ramandeep were received, developed and shared with the Central
agencies.
|
Non-violent |
73 |
November 10 |
Anna Nagar East, Madurai District
|
Around 11 country-made bombs were recovered
from a garbage bin on the Anna Nagar East Main Road in Madurai
District of Tamil Nadu. On being alerted, the Madurai City Police
reached the spot and recovered the bombs. The bombs, which were
in oval and cylindrical shapes, were fastened with threads.
The Police said they were clueless about the persons who had
dumped the bombs in the bin.
|
Non-violent |
74 |
November 11 |
Kanyakumari District
|
ED officials have booked a case against Abraham
Jayakumar, a karate master in Kanyakumari District for hawala
(illegal money transfer) transactions in Tamil Nadu. NIA officials
have also started inquiring into the background of the accused,
after suspicion of his links with some terror groups in the
Middle East.
|
Non-violent |
75 |
November 15 |
Chennai
|
NIA investigating the October 2 Bardhaman blast,
is looking for Gulshan Bibi- "drug queen" from Kolkata, now
reportedly based in Chennai. Gulshan Bibi, who fled to Chennai
years ago, still runs, through remote control, the narcotics
business and sleuths have found connections between her and
Islamic terrorists, said NIA sources. However, the Police in
Chennai have no clue about her. Official sources in the Chennai
branch of the NCB too said no drug smuggler or peddler by the
name of Gulshan Bibi had figured in their radar so far. But
NIA sources in Kolkata said Gulshan provided shelter to two
JMB terrorists, who visited Chennai before the May 1 blasts
at the Central railway station.
|
Non-violent |
76 |
November 20 |
Chennai |
According to the Intelligence sources, the twin
blasts in the Bangalore-Guwahati (Kaziranga) Express at Chennai
Central Station on May 1, 2014, was reportedly carried out by
the five fugitive terror suspects from the terror outfit SIMI,
who had escaped from the District jail in Khandwa in Madhya
Pradesh. The breakthrough in the investigation came after the
UP ATS tracked the call detail records of the suspects' mobile
phones, which they had left behind. The terror suspects are
also allegedly behind the September 12 accidental blast in Bijnor
in Uttar Pradesh.
|
Non-violent |
77 |
November 27 |
Poonamallee |
Sakir Hussain, a Sri Lankan national and suspected
ISI spy who was arrested in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) in April, 2013,
pleaded guilty in Poonamallee Special Court by confessing that
he had circulated FICN in India on instructions from Pakistan
embassy officials in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
|
Non-violent |
78 |
November 28 |
Poonamallee |
Mohammed Sakir Hussain, suspected ISI agent
from Sri Lankan was convicted to five years by a special court
in Poonamallee on charges of smuggling FICN. "At the time of
his arrest, he was in possession of INR 2, 53,000 worth high
quality FICN meant to be circulated in the country to destabilise
the economy," said special public prosecutor C.S.S. Pillai who
appeared in the case.
|
Non-violent |
79 |
November 29 |
Poonamallee |
The code name for the terror plot to attack
the US consulate in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) was "wedding hall"
which was to be executed by "cooks", a code for terrorists who
were to gain entry from Maldives into India, and "Spice" was
the code name for the bomb devices which were to be planted
at the consulate. Details of the failed plot were contained
in the 23-page court order of Designated Special NIA Judge in
Poonamallee, Chennai, in connection with the case.
|
Non-violent |
80 |
December 3 |
Triplicane in Chennai
|
Two siblings, identified as Syed Jamil and Syed
Askar from Bengaluru (Karnataka) were arrested while trying
to exchange FICN worth INR 14,000 for purchasing a used two-wheeler
at Triplicane in Chennai (Tamil Nadu). A third brother and accomplice,
Syed Wasim however, had managed to escape.
|
Non-violent |
2013
Sl. No.
|
Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 20
|
Moolakadai, Chennai District
|
Police intercepted a car near and seized FICN
worth INR 503,000. Three persons were also arrested.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
March 7 |
Melur, Madurai District
|
Police arrested two persons on charges of attempting
to pass off FICN.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
March 28 |
Madurai District
|
A SIT of CB-CID arrested one person in connection
with pipe bomb planted in senior BJP leader L K Advani's Jan Chetna
Yatra (Public awareness tour) on October 27, 2011.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
March 29 |
Udumalpet, Tirupur District
|
FICN with total face value of INR 15,000 were
detected among the remittances received at SBI's branch.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
April 19 |
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
|
Syed Sahabbudhin and Darvish Moideen, two accused
in October 27, 2011 case relating to planting of a Pipe Bomb,
have filed bail applications before the Madras High Court Bench
in Tamil Nadu.
|
Statement |
6 |
April 23 |
Tamil Nadu |
Police arrested three people for their alleged
involvement in April 17, 2013, Bangalore (Karnataka) bomb blast.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
May 24 |
Tamil Nadu |
The NIA has begun a probe into claims by a Tamil
Nadu man, Thamim Ansari, that he had recced Indian strategic and
military sites for a Pakistani diplomat.
|
Statement |
8 |
June 14 |
Usman Road, T Nagar, Chennai
|
Two persons identified as Kishore and Brindhavan
were arrested when they attempted to exchange a FICN with a face
value of INR 7,000.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
August 8 |
Madurai |
In a joint operation, the Special Investigation
Division and the Madurai Police arrested two persons, Abdulla
and Taufeeq in connection with the murder of a milk vendor in
Madurai.
|
Non-Violent |
10 |
August 25 |
Tamil Nadu |
Security in coastal areas of Tamil Nadu has been
further increased following an anonymous telephone call about
infiltration of terrorists.
|
Non-Violent |
11 |
October 9 |
Tamil Nadu |
Al-Umma operatives Fakrudeen and Bilal Malik,
who are now in CB-CID custody, during their interrogation by owning
up murders of two more BJP leaders in the Tamil Nadu for which
other people had been arrested earlier, Police sources said.
|
Non-Violent |
12 |
October 15 |
Coimbatore |
CB-CID, Ernakulam, arrested a man, Muhammad Haneefa
suspected to be a key member of an international gang which smuggling
FICN, printed in Pakistan, to India through Dubai. He was arrested
from Coimbatore International Airport in Coimbatore District.
|
Non-Violent |
13 |
December 18 |
Nilgiris District |
FICN with a face value of INR 2,300 was seized
from a person and his assistant at Aravankadu in Nilgiris District.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
December 22 |
Thanjavur District |
Three persons, including two college students,
were arrested for printing and circulating FICN at Kumbakonam
in Thanjavur District.
|
Non-violent |
2012
-
October 28: The Reliance Oil Refinery
in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and L&T shipyards in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat
has been put on high alert by the intelligence agencies of the country.
Top intelligence sources said there are specific inputs about a
possible terror strike on these industrial houses.
-
August 24: CCB of the Chennai Police
arrested five persons on charges of circulating FICN of INR 500
denomination.
-
August 18: According to Union Home
secretary RK Singh, bulk of the rumours that triggered panic among
people of NE States in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra were
sourced from Pakistan.
-
August 5: Police arrested 3 suspects
and seized FICN worth INR 100,000, including a printing unit owner
in Tamil Nadu.
-
June 13-14: In order to train Police
officers in identifying FICN, a two-day workshop was organised by
the Police Training College on June 13-14 in Chennai. Around 55
Police officers from across the State were trained in scientific
methods of identification of FICN.
-
June 5: Two men from Bihar have
been arrested nearby Rasipuram in Namakkal District on the charge
of possessing INR 3,000 FICN all in the denomination of INR 100.
-
May 27: Police busted a FICN racket
and arrested three men, identified as Mohammed Javeed, Mohammed
Bashaar, and Mohammed Iftiyas at Samayapuram in Trichy District.
They seized FICN with the face value of INR 63,000 along with genuine
notes worth INR 91,000. The three arrested belonged to Bihar.
-
April 11: The Tiruppur North Police
had taken into FICN worth INR 20,000 which was found along with
the cash remittance made by a person at a private sector bank in
Tiruppur District in Tamil Nadu.
The Madras High Court reserved orders
on petitions seeking of lifting the ban on LTTE in India.
-
April 2: The Tamil Nadu Police denied
as "totally baseless" a Sri Lankan media report that some 150 LTTE
cadres were being trained in the State.
-
January 16: A suspected sympathizer
of the LTTE was arrested by Kochi city Police from Chengalpettu
in Chennai in connection with a human trafficking case involving
Sri Lankan Tamils. "We brought the accused from Chennai on Sunday
[January 15] and presented him before the local magistrate, who
remanded him in judicial custody.
2011
-
December 29: ANF headed by Deputy
Inspector General of Police (DIG) Alok Kumar, stepped up combing
operations in the Naxal [Left Wing Extremism (LWE)]-affected areas
in Malnad Districts following the killing of Sadashiva Gowda, a
bamboo basket weaver, by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
cadres in a thick forest in Thondalkatte near Naadpalu, about 70
kilometres from Udupi. A poster beside the body was recovered with
a warning, "right punishment will be given to the Police informers-Maoist."
Karnataka's Home and Transport Minister R Ashok said the ANF has
intensified combing operations in Udupi and other Malnad Districts
to arrest Maoists.
-
December 20: The Centre, said a
terror module busted in Delhi recently had links with Pakistan-based
terrorist group LeT. Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh informed
Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) in a written reply
that a special team of Delhi Police with the help of central intelligence
agencies and Police from West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu apprehended
seven suspected militants, including a Pakistani national, of an
IM module last month.
-
December 19: Kancheepuram (Tamil
Nadu) Police searched the premises of the Sri Devarajaswamy Temple
in Kancheepuram following a message from the Chennai City Police.
The Kancheepuram Police District control room received a wireless
message from Chennai City Police that an anonymous caller rang up
the City control room and claimed that he had heard a person, over
phone at a public call office, saying that a bomb would be planted
at the temple.
-
November 30: Delhi Police investigators
announced the neutralization of a terrorist cell that they claimed
was responsible for a string of nationwide attacks in the year 2010.
Fugitive IM 'commander' Muhammad Zarar
Siddibapa - a Karnataka resident also known by the alias Yasin
Bhatkal and the commander of the cell, who is wanted for his alleged
role in a string of urban bombings that began in 2005 - escaped arrest,
the Police said. Adil is alleged to have had past relationships with
both the JeM and organised crime groups. He, according to the Police,
was living under cover in Madhubani, Bihar, since 2010, when he was
despatched to India by IM commanders in Karachi to aid Siddibapa's
cell.
-
November 27: Two IM militants, identified
as Mohammad Irshad Khan and Abdur Rahman were arrested in Chennai
by a Delhi Police team.
-
November 3: Quoting Special Task
Force (STF) officials said that two former cadres of the banned
terror outfit Al-Umma have been identified as the masterminds behind
the plot to target the convoy of BJP leader L K Advani during his
journey near Madurai in Tamil Nadu and a manhunt is on to arrest
them.
-
November 2: The Special Investigation
Team of Tamil Nadu Police produced two arrestees identified as Abdullah
Abdul Rehman and Ismath before the Judicial Magistrate court in
Madurai in connection with the case involving the plot to blow up
the convoy of Bharatiya Janata Party leader L. K. Advani on October
28.
-
March 10: The
Director General of Police of Tamil Nadu, Letika Saran dismissed
Sri Lankan Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne's allegation that the
LTTE had three secret training camps in the State close to its border
with Kerala as baseless.
-
February 13: Central
intelligence agencies communicated specific inputs to the Tamil
Nadu Police that suspected LTTE cadres are conspiring to carry out
attacks on VVIPs (very very important persons) during forthcoming
Assembly elections in the State.
2010
-
September 7: Two more
persons were arrested by a Special Investigation Team in Coimbatore
railway station in Tamil Nadu. The arrests were made in connection
with the attack on the college lecturer J. Joseph whose right hand
was chopped off allegedly by cadres of radical outfit Popular Front
of India (PFI) for preparing a question paper with alleged derogatory
references to Prophet Mohammed. The arrestees were identified as
K .M Shobin and Shanavaz. So far 22 persons have been arrested in
the case.
-
August 17: Assistant Sessions Court
in Tambaram in Chennai convicted six LTTE sympathizers and sentenced
them to one year imprisonment in a case registered against them
by the Indian Q Branch Police in 2007. The report said that the
Q Branch personnel had arrested five LTTE sympathizers, Hambianna,
Senjames, Jayakumar, Pushpadanraj, Bominathan and Reticular, for
trying to smuggle out a boat to Sri Lanka for the alleged use of
the LTTE. The Q Branch officials had alleged that the accused connived
and purchased a boat from the south of Tamil Nadu and were trying
to smuggle it to Sri Lanka from Ramnad.
-
July 11: A Sri Lankan
national, Chandrayoga, was detained at the Airport of Chennai. He
allegedly has links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
His entry into India was banned and a lookout circular was pending
against him. Chandrayoga arrived at Chennai from Colombo.
-
June 16: Three suspected
operatives of the LTTE were arrested and a cache of detonators was
seized from their possession, four days after a member of the banned
outfit was arrested by the Police. The trio was arrested by the
Tamil Nadu ''Q'' branch during a raid at Tiruchirapalli. 4,900 ordinary
detonators and 430 electric detonators were recovered from them,
an official release said in Chennai. Siva, Selvam, Tamiz stayed
illegally in Chennai, Erode and Tiruchirapalli, respectively, without
registering themselves as Sri Lankan Tamils, it said, adding that
strict vigil along the coastal areas prevented them from smuggling
the detonators to Sri Lanka. Investigations revealed that the trio
did not have any plans to carry out terror acts in India, the release
said. 38-year-old Chiranjeevi, a member of the intelligence wing
of LTTE who was arrested on June 16, had confessed to having smuggled
explosives along with Siva, Selvam, Tamiz, during the war between
the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Army, Police claimed. The arrested were,
however, not involved in the recent track blast near Peranai Railway
Station, where passengers of the Tiruchi-Chennai Egmore Rockfort
Express had a narrow escape, the release stated.
-
June 13: The Police
detained eight persons belonging to the proscribed Tamil Desiya
Iyakkam for interrogation in connection with June 12 Railway track
blast at Sithani near Villupuram, reports The Hindu. Those detained
are Tamil Vengai, Jothi Narasimhan, K.Balu, Elumalai, Ezhil Ilango,
Ganesan, Jayaraman and Kumar. They were taken to various Police
Stations located at Kanjanur, Kaanai, Kedar and Thiruvennainallur
for interrogation.
-
June 12: Passengers
of the Tiruchirapalli-Chennai Rockfort Express had a narrow escape
when suspected pro- LTTE elements blasted railway tracks at Perani
Railway Station in Villupuram District in the wee hours. About three
feet of tracks were blown off in the explosion when the train was
coming towards the station at around 2:10 am (IST). The station
master cautioned the driver of the train, who applied emergency
brakes averting a major train disaster, Police and Railway sources
said. Leaflets condemning the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda
Rajapaksa were recovered from the site, Police said.
2009
-
November 30: As part
of a Central initiative to strengthen the intelligence machinery
across the country in the backdrop of the 26/11 terrorist attacks
in Mumbai, the Tamil Nadu Police has operationalised a SMAC. Linked
to the Multi-Agency Centre of the IB in New Delhi, the system
is connected to all other intelligence units in the State.
-
October 23: Tamil Nadu
Congress Committee headquarters secretary R. Dhamotharan lodged
a complaint with the Commissioner of Police that an anonymous caller
had on warned of explosions in the TNCC office on Thiru VI Ka Salai
and the residence of TNCC president K.V. Thangkabalu at Adyar. The
man had claimed he was calling from the Sri Lankan Tamil refugee
camp at Gummidipoondi, near Chennai.
-
October 22: SFs were
put on high alert in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu, and its suburbs
following a letter received at the Adyar Police Station that warned
of attacks on important targets. Though the letter did not specify
any date or time for an attack, it named the Tamil Nadu Police Academy,
Chennai Airport, Officers Training Academy and the "American Embassy"
(U.S. Consulate) among others as its targets and challenged the
Police to avert the sabotage if they could, Police sources said.
-
July 24: The Madras
High Court Bench in Madurai confirmed the conviction imposed on
four alleged LTTE sympathizers, Balasundaram alias Sundaram,
Meiyappan, Kannan and Murugan, for attempting to hurl a bomb at
the Police, but commuted their sentence to one-year rigorous imprisonment.
Justice A. Selvam held that the convicts need not undergo three
years of imprisonment, as ordered by a Fast Track Court in Pudukottai
district in 2004, considering the nature of offence committed and
the fact that they were first time offenders.
-
July 7: A massive combing
operation was launched by the Tamil Nadu Police, with assistance
from intelligence and Coast Guard personnel, in nearby islands and
all coastal Districts of the State to verify whether any LTTE militant
had infiltrated into the areas in the aftermath of the outfit's
defeat in Sri Lanka. The operations, ordered by the MHA, were being
carried out jointly by the Tamil Nadu Police, including the Coastal
Security Group and "Q" Branch, various intelligence wing personnel
and Coast Guard, official sources said. Police used metal detectors
and sniffer dogs to thoroughly check the casurina jungle in Dhanushkodi
area and various islands, including the Musal Tivu in the Gulf of
Mannar. The operations would continue till tonight, they said.
-
June 17: Indian Navy rescued four
Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, including a former LTTE cadre and an
Indian national, who spent 24 hours on an unmanned islet near Dhanushkodi
before reaching Rameswaram.
-
May 3: At least 20 LTTE sympathisers
were arrested for the attack on an Army convoy near Coimbatore a
day earlier. Cases have also been registered against 200 people
belonging to political groups sympathetic to the banned LTTE. The
arrested include Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam and Tamil nationalist
leader K Ramakrishnan, Police sources said. Supporters of the LTTE
reportedly stopped five Army trucks and soldiers on way back from
training at Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh and proceeding to Thiruvananthapuram
in Kerala.
-
April 18: One LTTE militant was
remanded to judicial custody in capital Chennai. Officials from
the ‘Q’ wing of the Tamil Nadu Police dealing with extremist activities
said the militant, identified as Muthanna, was arrested in the night
of April 17 along with global positioning system equipment. Muthanna,
who had come from the Mullaitivu District in Sri Lanka, was arrested
after specific information disclosed by one Jayanathan, another
LTTE militant arrested earlier.
-
April 3: Four persons were detained
from the southern Chennai suburb of Thiruvanmaiyur by the SFs neutralising
yet another LTTE ring that sought to smuggle war material to the
outfit. The detainees included a LTTE cadre identified as Sahanthan
who belonged to the Mullaitivu District in Sri Lanka. He had arrived
in India about a year ago and his mission was to coordinate activities
aimed at supplying the LTTE war material, sources told. Detained
along with him was a British national of Sri Lankan origin, Jayanathan,
who flew into Tamil Nadu recently and who reportedly has had links
with the LTTE in the past. The other two detainees were identified
as Babu of Rameswaram and Guhan of Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu. Both
are Indians and said to be linked to the Vidhuthalai Chiruthaigal
Katchi, a pro-LTTE group in Tamil Nadu that is now allied to the
ruling Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam. Seized from them were several
satellite telephones, Global Positioning System, night vision devices
as well as medicines. It is the first action on the LTTE in 2009
in Tamil Nadu.
2008
-
December 31: Authorities received
three e-mail threats from the Deccan Mujahideen outfit to attack
the celebration of Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (Indian Diaspora Day)
scheduled to be held in Chennai from January 7-9, 2009. The emails
were traced to Saudi Arabia. The threats against the celebration
were sent using an e-mail identity, [email protected].
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December 30: A 30-year-old Sri Lankan
national was arrested in Chennai by Police on charges of attempting
to smuggle communication equipments to the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The youth, identified as Dileepan, was arrested along with three
satellite phones meant for the LTTE.
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December 28: The Tamil Nadu Police
arrested an alleged supplier of explosives to the LTTE, Amir Anthony
Paranthaman of Vavuniya (Sri Lanka), near Tambaram bus stand in
capital Chennai and seized 500 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, eight
Global Positioning System devices, three satellite phones and two
Global Systems for Mobile repeater sets from his possession.
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December 5: Three more abandoned
boats were found drifting in the coast raising suspicion among officials
that the LTTE militants were sneaking into Tamil Nadu. The boats
found abandoned were located at Arichalmunai, Erandam and Moondram
theedai.
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December 4: Six boats, some with
bullet marks and blood stains, were found abandoned off Rameswaram
and Nagapattinam coasts. "If it is one or two boats, it is okay.
But how can so many boats drift to the shore. It appears to be a
case of infiltration," an unnamed top official of Tamil Nadu Police
said.
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August 6: Two LTTE cadres, identified
as K. Uma Ramanan and A. Amalan, who hail from Jaffna in Sri Lanka,
were arrested from capital Chennai. Police said the duo was in possession
of an unspecified quantity of ammonium nitrate besides cables and
detonators. With these arrests, the total number of LTTE militants
arrested in the past week has increased to 10.
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August 3: Police in Ramanathapuram
arrested a suspected LTTE militant in connection with the seizure
of Global Positioning System and other electronic material at Uppur
near Ramanathapuram recently. K.A. Senthil Velan, Superintendent
of Police, said the Police arrested Krishna Neethan alias Nixon,
son of Sivasekaran of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka, at the Ramanathapuram
bus stand.
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July 30: The Tamil Nadu Police arrested
a top LTTE functionary, identified as J. Thambi Annan a.k.a. Daniel,
from Chennai. "It is a very important catch. He is placed high in
the LTTE's hierarchy. Daniel was heading the procurement module
of the outfit in Sri Lanka," said the Director-General of Police
(Law and Order) K.P. Jain. Daniel, a resident of Kilinochchi in
Sri Lanka, played an instrumental role in procuring major consignments,
including explosive substances, for the outfit from India and other
parts of the world. He was involved in the attempts to smuggle consignments
of aluminium ingots and ball bearings, which were intercepted and
seized by the Police in Ramanathapuram and Madurai Districts in
the recent months.
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Police seized a large quantity of
electronic gadgets and other articles meant for smuggling to Sri
Lanka and arrested four persons at Uppur Chathiram in Ramanathapuram.
Acting on a tip-off, the Police team intercepted a speeding van
at Uppur Chathiram check post and seized 10 Global Positioning System
equipments, 3360 pen torch batteries, one Honda Genset, one bundle
LTTE uniform, five cell phones, 11 life jackets, one pistol cover,
one satellite TV receiver, two battery chargers and Rupees 28050
cash. All the seized goods were meant for the LTTE in Sri Lanka.
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July 27: The 'Q' branch of the Tamil
Nadu Police neutralised a terrorist module with the arrest of a
39-year-old suspected fundamentalist who allegedly was part of a
plot to cause bomb blasts on trains and in Chennai and Tirunelveli.
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July 24: A donation slip book bearing
a Kilinochchi address in Sri Lanka, camera, video cassettes, INR
25000 in cash and two film rolls kept inside a bag was seized by
the Police in Thoothukudi. The bag was found abandoned near the
Thoondigai Vinayagar Temple in Tiruchendur. Police suspect that
the bag could have been left at the spot either by some Sri Lankan
tourist or supporters of the LTTE.
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July 22: The 'Q' Branch of the Tamil
Nadu Police neutralised a major LTTE procurement network, seizing
five imported Yamaha outboard motors with a 40-horse-power capacity
each. In connection with the seizures, the Police team arrested
Kumargurubaran, a resident of Chennai, Ramesh, hailing from Ramanathapuram,
and Manamohan from Pesalai in Sri Lanka, from near the Kattumanadi
bus stop near Manalmelkudi.
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June 14: A suspected LTTE sympathiser
was arrested and goods, including batteries and medicines, were
seized from a high speed boat in the sea off Devipattinam at Rameswaram.
The Police seized INR 1000000 worth of batteries, Army uniforms,
medicines and gloves from the boat around mid-night, the sources
said, adding, there were 25 bundles, including 18,000 batteries,
uniforms, medicines, 'beedies' (locally made cigars) and other items.
Inspector Thiagarajan told PTI that the occupants of the boat jumped
into the sea on seeing the Police but they managed to catch Vijayan,
an LTTE sympathiser from Sri Lanka. Three others, who hail from
Devipattinam, managed to escape, he added.
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May 18: The 'Q' Branch Police in
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) arrested two Sri Lankan nationals allegedly
supplying explosives and electronic gadgets to LTTE. The duo had
sent huge quantities of explosives to the LTTE through agents along
the Rameswaram coast. Following information, Police intercepted
a Tata Sumo vehicle near Villapuram and took into custody P. Jayaraja
alias Viji alias Vijayan of Mannar and T. Chinnavan alias Padmaraja
of Jaffna. They were in possession of 44 walkie-talkie sets and
INR 459000 in cash. K. Senthil of Madurai who provided logistic
support to the two was also arrested sources in the intelligence
agencies said.
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April 2: The Coastal Security Group
Police neutralised a network involved in supplying uniforms to the
LTTE. It came to light when a CSG team raided a boat used to make
illegal trips to Iranatheevu, controlled by the LTTE, in Sri Lanka,
near the fishing harbour in Rameswaram. There were five persons
on board, identified as Oomaiyan alias Christhu, Vellaiyan, the
owner of the boat Chellaiah, Murugan and Arasu, who possessed photographs
of model uniforms, which were supposed to be delivered to a group
of tailors in Tamil Nadu. A sum of INR 3000 and 50 soaps were also
seized.
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March 27: Police arrested there
persons who were involved in smuggling activities for the LTTE,
under the National Security Act. The arrestees were identified as
Murugapandi, Muthuramalingam and R. Raja. According to a press release,
four Maoists were also arrested from Varsanadu in the Theni District
and cases were filed against them under various sections of the
IPC, Arms Act, Explosive Substances Act and Criminal Law Amendment
Act.
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February 11: The Tamil Nadu Police
arrested an alleged supplier of explosives to the LTTE and seized
from him 100 detonators, 83 gelatine sticks and 10 metres of fuse
wire. The man had been shuttling between Tiruchirapalli and Pudukottai
to procure the explosive substances, including gelatine sticks,
Tamil Nadu Police's 'Q' Branch Inspector Thiagarajan told reporters.
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January 20: Tamil Nadu Police arrested
two more persons in connection with the smuggling of ball bearings,
reportedly used by the LTTE to make explosives, to Sri Lanka. Following
the trail of cell phone contacts of Nathan alias Suruli,
arrested along with seven others at Madipakkam on January 17 in
the same case, 'Q' Branch Police intercepted Selvaraj, working in
a sweet stall in Mumbai for the last 25 years, and seized small
packets of ball bearings he had bought as samples.
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January 16: The Tamil Nadu Police
arrested Nathan alias Suruli alias Thambithurai Parameswaran,
the LTTE Tamil Nadu intelligence unit chief, from a hideout at Madipakkam.
They also arrested seven other Sri Lankan nationals, who worked
under him as helpers to collect information about anti-LTTE leaders
like Varadaraja Perumal and Douglas Devananda, besides posing as
traders to buy items like spare parts for two-wheelers and boats
to be sent back to Sri Lanka.
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January 8: The 'Q' Branch of the
Tamil Nadu Police intercepted a consignment of explosives bound
for Sri Lanka in Madurai and took six persons into custody, who
admitted that they were meant for use by the LTTE. S. Sivakrishnan
alias Nandan of Sri Lanka and S. Muthuramalingam of Kamuthi
were found to be in possession of 5,000 detonators concealed in
a travel bag.
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December 8: Three persons of Sri
Lankan origin, including a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
cadre from its marine wing, were arrested by the 'Q' branch of the
Tamil Nadu Police in the car parking area of the international airport
terminal in the capital Chennai. The three were allegedly involved
in the purchase of a boat for the LTTE.
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November 27: Two women were arrested
at Semmamadam while trying to smuggle 3,300 detonators, 39 gelatine
sticks and a bundle of fuse wires to Sri Lanka.
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November 26: An LTTE cadre, identified
as Sateeswaran, regarded as the kingpin in the outfit's procurement
wing and wanted in connection with various cases of procuring and
smuggling explosives, drugs and fuel for the banned outfit, was
arrested when he was attempting to escape to Sri Lanka. The cadre
from Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka had earlier tried to smuggle 50 bags
of explosive substances, including Potassium Chlorate and Sulphur,
which were seized at Paramakudi on November 18, Police said. A hand-book
on making bombs, three cell phones and jewellery was recovered from
him.
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September 3: A Kuala Lumpur-bound
passenger, identified as Suresh, was arrested at the Chennai airport
for possessing books published by the proscribed LTTE.
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August 21: The Indian Navy and Customs
neutralised a racket in selling diesel to LTTE operatives. A joint
patrolling party based at Rameswaram seized a mechanised boat and
arrested five fishermen with Sri Lankan currency. "During interrogation,
they confessed that they handed over 50 litres of diesel to the
operatives of LTTE at Kottai Mannar in Mannar District. In exchange,
the crew received INR 1,500 in Sri Lankan currency. They also revealed
that nearly 60 fishing boats exchanged diesel to the LTTE men on
Monday by violating the International Maritime Boundary Line," said
Commander S. Mukherjee, Area Commander (South).
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May 21: A suspected LTTE-trained
militant wanted in connection with an attack bid on the Fort St
George in Chennai in 1990 was arrested by Police at Thanjavur. Raja
Ayyappan, a member of the Tamizhar Pasarai outfit, who allegedly
received training at an LTTE camp between 1990 and 1998, was arrested
following a tip off.
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April 9: Three Sri Lankan refugees,
who were enrolled at the Mandapam Transit Camp at Ramanathapuram
in Tamil Nadu and quarantined on suspicion, after a seven-day interrogation
have been identified as Sea-Tigers [LTTE sea wing cadres] and were
arrested.
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March 28: The Tamil Nadu Police
recovered two sacks containing 1950 electrical detonators from Ramanathapuram.
The ammunition cache was buried in a coconut grove at Irumeni under
Uchipuli Police limits, 40 kilometers west of Pamban Bridge that
links the Rameswaram Island to Mandapam, near the final land frontier
on the Palk Strait that divide India and Sri Lanka. Ramanathapuram
Superintendent of Police, R. Thirugnanam, disclosed that the cache
was meant for the LTTE.
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March 18: A key member of a gang
suspected to be involved in smuggling of explosive materials for
the LTTE was arrested at Mandapam, 125-km from Madurai.
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March 8: Tamil Nadu Police arrested
a person as part of their investigation into the seizure in Perambalur
of iron balls meant for smuggling to Sri Lanka. The Director-General
of Police (DGP), D. Mukherjee, said that Raju of Rameswaram, was
arrested in Pudukottai on the basis of information gathered during
the interrogation of a Sri Lankan, Rahul, alias Antony, who
was arrested on March 7. The DGP said 41 people, including 16 Sri
Lankan Tamils, were arrested for smuggling and unlawful activities
on land and sea since November 29, 2006.
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March 7: The Tamil Nadu Police arrested
Rahul alias Antony, a Sri Lankan national, at K. K. Nagar,
in Chennai and based on the information furnished by him, they seized
4.5 tonne of metal balls from a house at Venkatachalapathi Nagar
in Perambalur.
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March 6: A Sri Lankan national,
Arulseelan, suspected to have links with the LTTE, was arrested
at Dheeran Nagar in Tiruchy for possessing INR 1000000 cash in his
house. A special team from Q Branch Police raided a washing powder
company at Perambalur in connection with a hawala (illegal
money transfer) case. They seized 150 bags of metal balls, each
weighing 30-kilogram, concealed in the house of one Rameshkumar,
who is absconding now.
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February 20: The Coast Guard destroyed
a LTTE boat seized by them on February 13. The decision to destroy
the boat was taken after finding that the gap between the fibre
sheets of the boat was packed with gunpowder and it could explode
any time. Officials of Central and State agencies supervised the
destruction process after it was towed by Coast Guard ship `Avvaiyar'
to mid sea.
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February 13: The Indian Coast Guard
in the Palk Bay, 20 nautical miles from Point Calimere in south
Tamil Nadu, intercepted a LTTE ship carrying a suicide bomb jacket
packed with explosive substances weighing seven kilograms, five
detonators, and arrested five persons, including one who served
as a driver for the LTTE and four Sri Lankan Tamils. Besides the
suicide bomb vest and detonators, five hand grenades, an AK-56 rifle
with 124 rounds of ammunition and eight drums of 55 litres of liquid
chemical were also found in the ship.
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February 12: Indian Navy arrested
two persons off Rameswaram coast and seized components of around
2.9 tonnes from them used for making Improvised Explosive Devices
(IEDs). Preliminary enquiry revealed that the IED components were
being smuggled to the LTTE cadres in Sri Lanka.
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January 23 Police have arrested
eight suspected LTTE cadres from Tamil Nadu and seized more than
two metric tons (2.2 US tons) of ball bearings that can be used
for making mines. The arrested cadres had bought the bearings, manufactured
in Mumbai, and were to planning to take them to Sri Lanka. Five
of them were arrested on January 23-night in the capital Chennai,
while three others were arrested on the same day from Tuticorin.
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January 6: Outlook reports
that fifty live rocket shells were netted by fishermen from the
Palk Straits in waters off the Tamil Nadu coast in the past 15 days.
The Israeli and German-made shells, packed in wooden boxes, are
believed to have been abandoned by the LTTE. A Police official said,
"The shells could have been jettisoned by militants while being
transported to Sri Lanka after they were spotted by some Coast Guard
officials."
Source: Compiled from English language
media sources.
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