Chennai: Tamil Nadu BJP president Okay Annamalai on Sunday stated the state director normal of police and an intelligence officer must take blame for the Coimbatore blast, alleging that the police did not preserve monitor of the sufferer of the blast, who he claimed was an ISIS sympathiser.
Responding to the assertion that he’s defaming the state police pressure, Annamalai took to Twitter to put up a 9-page rebuttal and screenshots of a “secret report” and WhatsApp standing of Jameesha Mubin, who died on the spot within the October 23 incident when one of many two LPG cylinders exploded contained in the Maruthi 800 he was driving.
Annamalai questioned why the Tamil Nadu police didn’t put underneath its surveillance Mubin regardless of inputs from a particular unit as early as July this 12 months. He stated Mubin was amongst a listing of 96 names put out by a particular unit of police. “Mubin’s title figured within the checklist as 89th particular person and there was sufficient proof to indicate that he was radicalised in direction of ISIS ideology. However there was no motion by the police although the data was given in July,” the BJP chief stated.
“A report submitted by a Particular Unit of the Tamil Nadu police after the incident termed Jameesha Mubin, the occupant of the car, as a suicide bomber. Will the police deny this data?” Annamalai requested. “Will the police additionally deny that Mubin had posted a standing message which talked about his imminent dying?”
Annamalai blamed DGP Sylendra Babu and ADGP (Intelligence) Davidson Devasirvatham for intelligence failure associated to the blast. “The 1998 Coimbatore blast (which killed 58 individuals) was an intelligence failure and the 2022 blast can also be an intelligence failure and I blamed the DGP and ADGP for this. The DGP ought to have proven the identical curiosity that he reveals in biking in policing as effectively,” he stated.
Annamalai stated the DGP and police pressure haven’t any rights to inform a political occasion to not elevate questions. Tamil Nadu police had on Saturday launched an announcement asking Annamalai, a former Karnataka IPS officer, to not defame the state police pressure.
The assertion had accused Annamalai of giving false data on intelligence inputs from the Centre and making an attempt to divert the probe by talking intimately in regards to the incident.
“There isn’t any particular point out of Coimbatore anyplace within the alert. He (Annamalai) is making an attempt to create a misunderstanding that the police didn’t act on particular details about the incident,” the police stated on Saturday. “The police would have arrested the suspects and recovered explosives instantly if there was a particular alert a few blast in Coimbatore as Annamalai claims.”
Tamil Nadu police have invoked Illegal Actions Prevention Act (UAPA) towards six accused who helped Mubin. “Throughout investigation, the officer involved sends an in depth report back to the state authorities, which in flip informs the Union authorities. Primarily based on the character or magnitude of the case, the Union Authorities will order an inquiry by the NIA inside 15 days,” the police stated. “Within the Coimbatore case, the process was adopted totally and with none delay. The state authorities advisable a probe by the NIA. In some vital circumstances, the Union House Ministry will suo motu switch the case to NIA. However within the case of the Coimbatore incident, the state authorities advisable the switch of the case to NIA even earlier than the Union authorities launched an order.”