You have commented 338 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Sri Lanka
LTTE rebel arrested S. India along with two accomplices
2007-12-10
(KUNA) -- A Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel of Sri Lankan origin has been arrested in the Southern Indian city of Chennai along with his two colleagues on charges of smuggling battle materials to the banned outfit in the neighbouring island nation.

Police in Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu arrested the three late Saturday night, a police statement said Sunday in Chennai, news agency Indo Asian News Service reported. Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu. The three were identified as James and Jayakumar (both of Sri Lankan origin) and Ravi Kumar, an Indian citizen, the statement added.

Tamil Nadu police said that Jayakumar was from LTTE's sea wing. He reached Tamil Nadu clandestinely in early 2007 and hails from Velvettiturai in Jaffna (Nothern Sri Lanka) where LTTE chief V Prabhakaran was born, the news agency said. James belongs to Mannar in Sri Lanka, the statement said. Tamil Nadu police seized four mobile phones from them and said they were planning to smuggle war items to Sri Lanka.
Posted by:Fred

00:00