Date:09/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/09/stories/2009010953020600.htm

Karnataka

Two Veerappan aides held

Correspondent

CHAMARAJANAGAR: The Chamarajanagar district police have arrested Eranna and Basava, associates of brigand Veerappan at Devaramalai of Bhavani taluk of Erode district in Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Thursday in connection with the 1993 Palar bomb blast case and 1992 Meenyam attack cases.

The accused were produced before the District and Sessions and TADA court where the Judge remanded them in judicial custody till January 12. Five police personnel were killed in Ramapura in an attack by Veerappan on May 20, 1992. In the Palar blast case in April 1993, Veerappan and his gang members killed 22 police personnel, including two forest watchers, by triggering landmines at Sorekai Maduvu.