CBI suspects Arun had links with LTTE
Arun Selvarajan. (Photo: DC/File)
Chennai: The Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA), which is investigating the conspiracy angle in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, wants to question Arun Selvarajan, a Sri Lankan national arrested for spying for Pakistan in Chennai.
“The CBI wants to know if the suspect had links with the LTTE while he was in Lanka,” special public prosecutor for NIA, C.S.S. Pillai, told this newspaper on Tuesday.
MDMA, comprises experts from CBI and other agencies who had been the probing the LTTE’s conspiracy angle for all these years now. The MDMA wants to know if Arun, who was just 5 years old when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated near Chennai in 1991 by a suicide bomber. Meanwhile, the designated NIA court on Tuesday said it would pronounce the order on a petition seeking seven days custody of Arun on Wednesday.
Arun, 28, posing as an event management professional, allegedly accessed vital installations like the Coast Guard and the Officers Training Academy. He was allegedly working on behalf of handlers based at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo. Arun was arrested last Wednesday.
Seven mobile phones, 11 SIM cards, a laptop, hard discs, pendrives, micro-tape cassettes were among the seizures made by the NIA from his residence. He was also carrying Indian and Sri Lankan passports.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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