TNLA founder's death anniversary: police on alert

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, AUG. 29. Even while the Tamil Nadu Government is grappling with the demands of the sandalwood smuggler, Veerappan and his TNLA associates, the police have sounded an alert in view of the forthcoming death anniversary of the TNLA founder, Tamilarasan, which falls on September 1.

Tamilarasan was lynched to death by a mob on September 1, 1987, after a robbery attempt at a bank near Ariyalur.

The alert has been sounded in TNLA's areas of operation in Perambalur, Cuddalore, Villupuram, Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Pudukottai and Nagapattinam districts. The local police have been directed to guard against possible strikes by the TNLA cadres over the next one week. Senior police officers insisted that the alert was a routine annual exercise as a precautionary step to thwart any adventurism on the part of TNLA cadres. But this year, the anniversary falls at a time when the Tamil extremists are in an upbeat mood in the company of Veerappan.

Officers have been directed to post double sentries and make adequate lighting arrangements in and around police stations. Patrolling of railway lines and bridges has also been ordered.

Intelligence reports have it that most of the TNLA cadres operating in Perambalur district belonged to the Ilavarasan or Ramaswamy faction.

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