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TAMIL
NADU POLICE TAKES BOAT BUILDER FOR QUESTIONING
(By Walter Jayawardhana) In the ongoing investigation in to the alleged building of a 72 feet long boat for the terrorist group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a team of detectives from the Tamil Nadu Police took for questioning a man who rented a Kerala boatyard for the LTTE project. The man named Benny who faced Police interrogation rented the boatyard to build the sea-going vessel for alleged military purposes of the LTTE after receiving an advance of 1.2 million Indian Rupees. The entire project would have cost the banned terrorist outfit 4.2 million when the boat is finished, sources said. The Police started interrogating Benny after they took into custody the nearly finished boat at Munambu near Kochi, a reputed port in the South Indian state of Kerala , adjacent to Tamil Nadu. Sudha Marine Engineering at Munambu owned the boatyard. Together with the Tamil Nadu Police, India?s Internal Security Police and the Intelligence Bureau were involved in the investigations. According to initial reports the order of the boat building came from a man from Kozhikode. When two LTTE hardcore members of the LTTE named Premraj and Diesel Kumar were arrested earlier near Chennai they spilled the beans and led the police to the boatyard, sources said. India?s security services long suspected that the LTTE would increasingly move on to Kerala as pressure was applied on them at Tamil Nadu. Indian Defence Minister A. K.Antony recently said that terrorist groups would use Kerala sea routes more and strict vigil has to be applied against them. |
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