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Twenty years after the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by Dhanu, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s female assassin, a new controversy has thrown a shadow on the critical operation by the Special Investigating Team, raising serious questions on the protocol that allegedly aborted the arrest of the killer LTTE duo — Shubha and Sivarasan by the City police.
The duo along with six other LTTE cadres were found dead - they had committed suicide by consuming cyanide — by the SIT commando team and the City police in a house in Konankunte in suburban Bengaluru in the early hours of August 20, 1991, a day after they were tracked and put under ‘house arrest’ by the City police.
Retired IPS officer of Karnataka cadre, Kempaiah, who had led the raid on the house where Shubha and Sivarasan along with six other LTTE members were holed up, told Deccan Chronicle that he still “regrets” they could not arrest the duo alive.
“I am 100 per cent sure that we would have caught Shubha and Sivarasan alive had we raided the house on August 19. We were mentally ready. Our plan was to send in Halina Muniyamma — the woman, from whom the LTTE members would buy milk every day inside the house. And once the inmates opened the door, we would have entered the house and arrested them without giving them a chance to bite the cyanide capsule.
What a bungling!
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