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`Probe on into threat calls against N-activists`
Activists supporting the Koodankulam nuclear power project have alleged that they have received threatening calls including from abroad.
Chennai: Activists supporting the Koodankulam
nuclear power project have alleged that they have received
threatening calls including from abroad and a probe was on to
identify the guilty, Minister of State in the PMO V
Narayanasamy said on Saturday.
"Some people, we don`t know whether they are protestors, have made threat calls to those who support Koodankulam project. Some calls were made and letters signed by them were sent. We are investigating the issue and will soon identify the guilty," he told reporters here.
KNPP officials have made complaints to the police seeking action against those making such threats, he said. "They started the agitations saying they will follow the Gandhian way, but now they are doing this," he said, adding calls were made from abroad too.
Suspecting foreign funding behind the prolonged protest against the plant, he said investigations were on and the Centre would soon take action.
The locals in Koodankulam have been agitating since September last demanding the scrapping of the Indo-Russian project raising safety concerns in the wake of the Fukishuma accident in Japan early this year. Countering the protests against the plant, some other activists have been demanding the commissioning of the first reactor in the plant. The Madras High Court has been moved by a lawyer seeking to arrest protestors against whom criminal cases have been filed for stalling commissioning the project.
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"Some people, we don`t know whether they are protestors, have made threat calls to those who support Koodankulam project. Some calls were made and letters signed by them were sent. We are investigating the issue and will soon identify the guilty," he told reporters here.
KNPP officials have made complaints to the police seeking action against those making such threats, he said. "They started the agitations saying they will follow the Gandhian way, but now they are doing this," he said, adding calls were made from abroad too.
Suspecting foreign funding behind the prolonged protest against the plant, he said investigations were on and the Centre would soon take action.
The locals in Koodankulam have been agitating since September last demanding the scrapping of the Indo-Russian project raising safety concerns in the wake of the Fukishuma accident in Japan early this year. Countering the protests against the plant, some other activists have been demanding the commissioning of the first reactor in the plant. The Madras High Court has been moved by a lawyer seeking to arrest protestors against whom criminal cases have been filed for stalling commissioning the project.
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