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NSA detention of Tamil
ultras quashed: PTI

The Madras High Court quashed the detention of three members of the Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT) under the National Security Act.

Sathyamurthi, Manikandan and Muthukumar were among five Tamil ultras whose release had been demanded by forest brigand Veerappan in exchange for the freedom of Kannada filmstar Dr Rajakumar.

Though the Tamil Nadu Government had acceded to the outlaw's demand and revoked their detention under the NSA last August, the Supreme Court set aside the revocation.

However, the trio will continue to be lodged in jail as they are wanted in connection with a few other cases.

Their detention was quashed by a bench comprising Justices K Narayana Kurup and E Padmanabhan, based on a Supreme Court ruling holding that a detention order would be invalid if it failed to state expressly that the detenue had a right to make a representation to the detaining authority.

In this case, the detention did not mention their right, it was liable to be quashed, the bench said.

The TNRT is alleged to be an illegal militia trained by the LTTE in 1990 to fight for a separate Tamil Nadu.

Sathyamurthy, Manikandan and Muthukumar were allegedly involved in the December 1998 raid by Veerappan and his associates on Vellithiruppur police station in Erode district, but they were arrested only in the middle of 1999.

They were detained under the NSA on January 9, 2000.

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