The three men who were arrested—Velmurugan, Muthuselvam and Palanivel—are said to have told the police during interrogation that they had been preparing for arms training in the forests. The case was handed over to the state ‘Q’ Branch-CID police.
Vijayakumar had been the blue-eyed boy of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, enjoying prominence during her previous tenure. But worried by the Maoists’ spurt and reports that several youths had been identified as potential recruits, the DMK Government decided to hand over the brief to Vijayakumar, an acknowledged field operations expert.
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