A Principal District Court in India reserved orders for Saturday (April 28) in the Q Branch police case against banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supporters, who were charged with procuring cyanide capsules and Global Positioning System (GPS) sets to revive the militant organisation.
When the Q Branch police produced the four accused, K. Krishnakumar (42), R. Subashkaran (35) and N. Rajendran (44) and R. Sasikumar (40), both local Tamils, before the court on Friday, Principal District Judge A. Kayalvizhi posted the case to Saturday for orders.
The four accused, who were lodged in Puzhal Central Prison, Chennai, were brought to the court amid tight security.
A police team arrested Krishnakumar on July 20, 2015, after intercepting his car at Uchipuli and found in his possession 600 gm of cyanide powder, 75 capsules filled with cyanide powder, four GPS sets and seven mobile phones. The police also seized Indian Rs. 46,200, Sri Lankan Rs. 19,300, Indian and Sri Lankan driving licences.
He was arrested along with the two local Tamils, who brought him from Madurai to facilitate his clandestine return to Sri Lanka. Krishnakumar had served in the LTTE in the 1990s before coming to Tamil Nadu in 2009, the police said. Later, the Q Branch police arrested Subashkaran, a native of Kilinochi in Sri Lanka, in Chennai.
The Q Branch case was that the LTTE supporters, with the assistance of local Tamils, procured the cyanide capsules and GPS sets to revive the militant organisation, after it was defeated by the Sri Lankan forces in the civil war in May 2009. - The Hindu