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The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Coimbatore unit, is successful the process of seeking the jurisdictional tribunal for the proceedings of ‘Tailor’ Raja successful the execution of jailhouse warder Boopalan successful Coimbatore successful 1996.
The ATS determination comes aft the apprehension of Raja from Vijayapura territory successful Karnataka connected July 9 this year, 29 years aft his alleged engagement successful the murder, said sources privy to the development.
Raja and 3 others, namely Abbas alias ‘Oosi’ Abbas, Abuthahir, Shamsudheen, were alleged to person been progressive successful the execution of Boopalan, who served arsenic a jailhouse warder of the Coimbatore Central Prison successful 1996. They were accused of having hurled 5 Molotov cocktails astatine Boopalan, erstwhile helium was connected work astatine the bureau of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Prisons, connected Dr. Nanjappa Road, connected April 22, 1996. They besides allegedly assaulted the jailhouse warder with weapons. He was admitted to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, wherever helium died 2 days later. The onslaught was to instrumentality revenge connected situation warders, who allegedly ill-treated Muslim prisoners.
After the archetypal probe by the Race Course police, during which Abbas, Abuthahir and Shamsudheen were arrested, a Special Investigation Team of the Crime Branch CID took implicit the probe. The charge-sheet successful the lawsuit was filed successful December 1998 and the First Additional District Court acquitted the trio.
Besides Boopalan murder, Raja was alleged to person progressive successful the serial bombings successful Coimbatore connected February 14, 1998, which claimed 58 lives and near 250 persons injured, the Sayeetha execution lawsuit successful Nagore successful 1996 and the execution of jailor Jayaprakash successful Madurai successful 1997.
Sources added that Raja, who besides went by aliases including Sadiq and ‘Valarntha’ Raja, volition person to look proceedings successful the serial bombings and successful different lawsuit for offence nether Section 174 (intentionally failing to look erstwhile legally bound to bash truthful by a summons, notice, oregon bid from a nationalist servant) of the Indian Penal Code successful Coimbatore.
