MADRAS: The police intelligence network is on statewide alert and security cover for strategic insolation’s has been scaled up following a bomb blast at the TV relay station at Srinivasanallur near Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district.
An air-conditioning pant was damaged in the blast that occurred shortly after midnight on May 24 at the lower power TV relay center five km from Kumbakonam on the Karaikal road. No one was injured. A four-meter piece of wire and splintered bits of an explosive device were recovered from the blast site.
A wall poster carrying sketch of Dhanu (the belt-bomb assassin of Rajiv Gandhi) and a scribbled message was found scotch-taped to the wall of the TV relay station. The message wanted the government to withdraw the on the LTTE and grant recognition to an independent Tamil Eclam.
The poster is credited to the so called Tamil Nadu Viduthalai Padi (Tamil Nadu Liberation Force). The police suspect it to be the handiwork of the Jaffna-trained LTTE support group the Tam National Rewieval Force (TNRF). Intelligence sources do not rule out a connection between the Kumbakonam blast and the recent Sriperumbudur incident in which some pro-LTTE leaflets were recovered near the Rajiv memorial the day before the Prime Minister P.V.Narisima Rao went there.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 5, 1992
