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LTTE sympathisers under police scanner

S. Vijay Kumar

"Police have written to Government on fishermen's issue"

MADURAI: Sleuths of the `Q' Branch Crime Investigation Department were closely monitoring the activities of the sympathisers of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Tamil Nadu, Director General of Police D. Mukherjee has said.

"The `Q' Branch is on the job. It requires lot of spadework to bring somebody under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967," he told The Hindu on Sunday.

However, the DGP did not elaborate which organisations had come under the police scanner.

Mr. Mukherjee said that the police had written to the Government, asking it to take up with the Centre the issue of 12 Indian fishermen in the LTTE custody.

The charge that the LTTE was involved in the killing of five fishermen of Kanyakumari and abduction 12 other fishermen was based on interrogation of `Sea Tigers' by `Q' Branch.

Denying allegations that the State Intelligence had stage-managed the issue, he said confessions of the accused to the investigating agency were videographed.

Earlier, Mr. Mukherjee inaugurated a building of the Karuppayoorani police station. Additional Director General of Police A. Subramanian and Inspector General of Police (South Zone) Sanjeev Kumar were present.

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