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TNLA chief taken into custody
on Feb 12 or Feb 15?

Tamil Nadu Liberation Army chief Maran told a designated court in Madras that he had been taken into custody on February 12 from a house in Chidambaram and not from the Vellangiri forest on Feb 15 as had been made out.

Maran, a close associate of forest brigand Veerappan, told TADA judge M Chinna Pandi that the 'Q' branch of the Tamil Nadu police, which had taken him into custody on February 12, had handed him over to the Special Task Force set up to nab Veerappan two days later.

On Feb 15, STF IG V Balachandran had reportedly told reporters at Coimbatore that Maran alias Manimaran, the brain behind the abduction of Kannada thespian Dr Rajakumar, had been spotted in the dense Vellangiri forests and nabbed.

Maran was produced in a court following issuance of a Prisoner Transfer warrant by a judge on Feb 22 for his production in court in connection with cases relating to an attack on Kullanchavadi police station in Cuddalore district in 1993 and an attack on a railway station at Perani in Villupuram district.

Conceding a plea from the 'Q' branch, which is investigating the two cases, that Maran be placed in its custody for five days for questioning, the judge remanded him to four days' police custody with effect from Tuesday and directed he be produced in court on March two.

ALSO SEE
The Veerappan saga
Dr Rajakumar abduction episode

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