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Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 05.25 GMT |
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India on alert
against LTTE attacks |
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A
security
alert
was
declared
on 28
Jan
following
the
seizure
of
ammunition
on the
Tamil
Nadu
coast
and the
arrest
of four
Indian
men who
allegedly
helped
former
LTTE
cadres
fleeing
Sri
Lanka to
take
shelter
in
India.
Also
unearthed
from
prime
accused
Selvakumar
alias
Jeeva's
property
in
Rameshwaram
were
Rs.800,000
in
Indian
currency
and half
a kilo
of
heroin
valued
at
100,000
dollars
in the
global
market,
official
sources
in India
said.
Jeeva,
who has
a
criminal
past,
told his
interrogators
that he
transferred
on his
boat, a
man and
a woman
from the
LTTE
from the
mid sea
on Dec
24 and
brought
them to
Tamil
Nadu.
They
were
quietly
transported
inland
in a
car. The
driver
too has
been
arrested,
reported
Indo-
Asian
News
Service
(IANS).
According
to the
39-year-old
Jeeva, a
fisherman
by
profession,
he has
no idea
about
the
present
whereabouts
of the
pair who
he says
brought
all that
was
buried
in his
hideout.
These
included
22 live
rounds
of 9mm
ammunition
and a
Thuraya
satellite
telephone
the like
of which
the LTTE
used in
large
numbers
as it
went
down
fighting
last
year.
The
admission
stunned
police
and
intelligence
officials
who are
wondering
why
former
LTTE
fighters,
if they
were
fleeing
only for
safety,
would
like to
carry
live
ammunition
and a
satellite
telephone
with
them,
IANS
stated.
Since
the
ammunition
would be
of no
use
without
a
weapon,
the
authorities
are
looking
at the
case -
cracked
following
inputs
from a
central
intelligence
agency -
seriously.
The
others
who have
been
taken
into
custody
include
Khaleel
Rahman,
39,
Pazhani
Kumar,
Jeeva's
35-year-old
cousin
brother,
and Raju,
the car
driver
who is
25-years-old.
The
arrests
took
place on
Tuesday.
Jeeva
claimed
that the
money
found in
his
hideout
was what
he had
earned
for
smuggling
sea
cucumber,
a
delicacy,
from
Tamil
Nadu to
Sri
Lanka.
Fishing
and
trading
in sea
cucumber
is
banned
in
India.
Police
and
intelligence
sources
say
Jeeva's
confessions
present
a larger
danger
amid
continuing
heated
attacks
on the
Indian
government
and some
of its
key
functionaries
by
people
associated
with the
LTTE,
reported
IANS.
India
outlawed
the LTTE
after a
suicide
bomber
blew up
former
Prime
Minister
Rajiv
Gandhi
in 1991.
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