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COIMBATORE:Contradicting recent reports that a video was unearthed
from the five arrested Maoists allegedly giving weapons training to over
50 persons in an undisclosed location in Tamil Nadu, sources privy to
the investigation being carried out by the Q-Branch police, said that
such rumours were ‘false’ and were ‘fabrications’ of lower level
officials in the department. A tranche of documents were discovered in a
laptop belonging to Maoist couple, Roopesh and Shyna at their house in
Tirupur. However, the ‘documents’ were restricted to only pamphlets,
communist literature, and propaganda material, highly placed sources
told Express.
“The propaganda material discussed, in a generalized sense, the
problems faced by tribal communities mostly based in Kerala and
Karnataka.” In the laptop, there were also suggestions on how to
strengthen the Maoist movement in Tamil Nadu. Most of the documents were
in Malayalam, and have been handed over to the Kerala police. Police
confirmed that there was no video which had been unearthed from the hard
drives seized from any of the suspects. S Balamurugan, the lawyer
representing the five Maoists, said that the police themselves have not
produced any records of such a video, showing persons being given arms
training, to the court.
He said that the only materials seized from his clients were some
‘communist literature.’ The mere possession or affiliation with an
ideology cannot be construed to be illegal, he said. The reports of such
a video, without any material evidence of its existence, were ‘unfair’
and was an attempt to ‘defame and character assassinate’ the five
Maoists, he added. Meanwhile, Q-Branch police, who Express attempted to
contact, said that they were unaware of the existence of such a video
themselves. They were also clueless about the origins of such a rumour.
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