Vellore: Santhan and Murugan, members of LTTE, the Sri Lankan militant organization, believed that the LTTE erred in going against the Indian Government and proceeding against Indian leaders. Had that not happened, the Sri Lankan Tamils would not have faced the present setback, they said adding...
The three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, who faced a death sentence in 2011, had then expressed their disappointment with the former DMK Government in Tamil Nadu for not granting them clemency along with another convict Nalini. In an exclusive...
Vellore, October 12, 2011: The three convicts in the death row –Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan – charged with conspiracy in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged in Vellore prison, said in an interview in October 2011 that they believed they could be free men soon. (This interview...
When Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, were in the death row after being convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, I met them in the high-security Vellore prison and had an hour-long interview. Chatting over biscuits and tea kindly provided by the jail staff in an ante-room of the...
Will Tamil Nadu Governor refer the plea for release of Rajiv case convicts to the Centre? That is the most vital question as the Supreme Court on September 6, 2018, has asked the Tamil Nadu Governor to consider the mercy plea of Perarivalan, a convict in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination...
Tamil Nadu, already earning a notorious tag for its efforts to put down dissent especially against the BJP, blotted its copybook further with the arrest of a 28-year-old research scholar from Canada, Lois Sofia, for shouting, “down with Modi, BJP-RSS fascist government,” towards the end of a...
Glaston, 42, was among the dead in the Tuticorin firing. His family members tearfully recounted to a visiting team from inmathi soon after the incident about how he helped them flee the spot but he himself became a victim. Now, the inquiry commission has summoned him to appear before it and...
S Vijay Kumar, a chartered ship broker and cost accountant based in Singapore, has taken the unlikely avatar of an Indian Jones, tracking down idols stolen from ancient temples of Tamil Nadu. His upcoming book, Idol Thief, focuses on the case of Subhash Kapoor, the Manhattan-based art dealer...
On Friday morning, soon after chief minister Edappadi Palaniswami announced several measures as per Rule 110, Congress legislature party leader K R Ramasamy brought up the issue of IG Pon Manickavel. The police officer had submitted to the Madras High Court that its directions regarding inquiry...
The dump of bullets and explosives dug out at a house in Anthoniarpuram on Rameswaram island likely belonged to the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) that had a camp at that area. The ammunition was found when a septic tank at a house was cleaned. Sri Lankan Tamil militant...
