Director General of Police C. Sylendra Babu. , Photo Credit: KV Srinivasan
Tamil Nadu Police has been put on high level alert after several molotov cocktail attack In the premises of office bearers of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or other Hindu organization since last Thursday.
State Director General of Police C. Silendra Babu called for security of soft targets, places of worship and sensitive places after a review meeting with all commissioners/superintendents of police. Sending additional forces to places with a history of communal violence, he warned that those indulging in violence would be detained under the National Security Act.
Incidents of motorcycle-borne suspects throwing Molotov cocktails at select targets and unruly mobs pelting stones at buses in different parts of the state began soon after the crackdown by the Enforcement Directorate and local police along with the National Investigation Agency. Nationwide raids on premises of Popular Front of India (PFI) On 22 September.
The probe agency said the operation was launched on the basis of specific intelligence inputs and five cases registered by the NIA based on evidence that PFI leaders and cadres are involved in terrorism and financing terrorist activities, providing armed training Involved in organizing camps and radicalizing people to join banned organizations. in a release.
Investigators had carried out searches at 93 locations in 15 states at the homes and offices of top PFI leaders and arrested 45 suspects, of whom 19 were from Kerala and 11 from Tamil Nadu.
after the events of Molotov cocktail attack was reported in Coimbatore.Pollachi, Erode, Ramanathapuram and Tambaram on Thursday, Friday and Saturday [Sunday too]Mr Babu said similar attacks could happen at other places as well and called for strengthening the security arrangements. He said the police should seize the CCTV footage from the spot and interrogate the suspects identified in the visuals.
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While deploying additional forces in troubled areas, police and revenue department officials should hold meetings with peace committees of different groups to ensure peace, he said and directed that night patrolling and vehicle checking be intensified across the state. To be done Some suspects involved in throwing Molotov cocktails were arrested and their motorcycles seized, the DGP said, adding that police are questioning 250 suspects for their alleged involvement in the incidents of violence.