Three held for alleged links with Maoists in Tamil Nadu
SALEM: Salem Rural police on Sunday arrested three persons for their alleged links with Maoists.
According to police, Manivasagam, suspected to be a Maoist, was shot dead in Ramamoorthy Nagar by Kerala police on October 28, 2019.
During his funeral, few of his supporters raised slogans against the government.
Deevattipatti police registered a case in connection with the incident. Six persons were arrested and remanded.
A year later, on Sunday morning, a special team of police arrested three more persons in the case.
They were identified as S Selvaraj (55), former district secretary of CPI (ML), A Balan (41), state general secretary of Tamil Desiya Makkal Munnani, and G Srinivasan (66), Salem district president of Tamil Desiya Makkal Munnani.
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