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Adequate security sought for slain BJP leader family

Staff Reporter

DINDIGUL: As soon as the Principal Sessions Court here pronounced triple life term to four members of Al-Umma outfit in connection with the murder of the BJP State Executive Committee member, Manicka Nadar, and his friend Selvaraj, on Tuesday, the Coimbatore Superintendent of Police and one of the investigation officers of this case, Pon. Manickavel, called on Kalaiselvi, wife of Manicka Nadar, at her residence here and briefed her on the judgement.

He drove directly to her residence in a car and interacted with her.

(Other investigation officers were Superintendents of Police A.M.S. Gunaseelan and Ilangovan).

Mr. Manickavel told her that the four accused were convicted in her husband's murder case.

Expressing happiness over the judgement, she pointed out that the punishment awarded to the accused would not bring her husband back. I could not fill the vacuum.

My family was completely collapsed after the murder of my husband. Still, I had been struggling to set things right, she said.

"In one way I am happy that the police arrested the culprits behind the murder and the court punished them."

Mrs. Kalaiselvi said, "I did not even imagine that Meera Mohideen would have done it. (The first accused Meera Mohideen was a house servant of Manicka Nadar)."

Later, the Superintendent of Police contacted top police officers in Chennai to provide adequate security to the family members of Manicka Nadar.

Manickanadar and his friend Selvaraj were murdered at 9.30 p.m. on January 10, 1997, while they were returning home from their shop in Dindigul.

The Special Investigation Team had arrested nine accused in this case.

The Principal Sessions Court Judge, A. Kalai Arasan, awarded tripe life to Meera Mohideen, Mohammad Khan, brother of Al-umma leader S.A. Batcha, Mohammad Subair, brother-in-law of Batcha, and Abdul Aziz of Madurai.

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