TN police on alert over smuggling of drugs by former LTTE sympathizers

Chennai, May 20 (BPNS)

The Tamil Nadu police is on high alert after intelligence inputs on the possibility of drugs being smuggled into the state.

As per inputs from central agencies, a few former operatives of the banned Tamil nationalist organization, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is trying to regroup and is focusing on Tamil Nadu as the base area.

It may be recalled that a former senior intelligence operative of the LTTE, Satkunam alias  Sabesan was arrested in October 2021 for trying to smuggle in drugs worth Rs 3,000 crore and five AK 47 assault rifles and ammunition using an international drug network. The police had found that he transferred money to the accounts of certain people in Sri Lanka who were former sympathisers and activists of the LTTE.

A week ago drugs worth Rs 25,000 crore was seized in  Kochi in which a Pakistan national was nabbed by the police. The notorious Haji Ali network of Pakistan was involved in the smuggling of drugs.

Tamil Nadu police have deployed additional police force at all the checkposts along the border with Kerala and has also accelerated vigil in the coastal areas of the state. Tamil Nadu coastal police have also increased vigil across coastal districts with special emphasis on Ramanathapuram.

The National Intelligence Agency earlier arrested Guna alias C. Gunashekharan a year ago from Tamil Nadu for trying to revive LTTE and having made contact with a few Pakistan nationals regarding this.