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Three Persons Suspected Of Having Links To Al-Qaeda Have Been Arrested In Madurai
View of the Madurai Meenakshi temple. Photo credit: Fraboof/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons
The National Investigation Agency and Tamil Nadu police have arrested three individuals with links to al-Qaeda in Madurai and they are being taken to Mysuru for further investigation, reported ANI. All of the three suspected al-Qaeda men arrested were involved in bombings at six courts, including Mysore, Chittoor, Kollam, Nellore and Malappuram.
Two months ago, Tamil Nadu was witness to attacks against three Hindu nationalist activists. At least two of these attacks (one victim killed and another reportedly grievously injured) were suspected to have been the handiwork of hardcore Islamist organisations operating in Tamil Nadu.
From 2012 to 2013, six high-profile right-wing activists were murdered across Tamil Nadu. These included members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state executive, medical wing head, an ex-corporator, a state secretary of Hindu Munnani (an active Hindu organisation), a district vice-president of Hindu Munnani and, to top it all, a BJP General Secretary.
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