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Veerappan sets 5-day deadline
Veerappan, this time around, has set five-day deadline to meet his demands. Experts, who have been keeping track of Veerappan, say the brigand is acting tough this time as compared to hostage dramas in earlier occasions.
Zeenext Bureau
Chennai, Aug 24: Veerappan, this time around, has set five-day deadline to meet his demands.
Experts, who have been keeping track of Veerappan, say the brigand is acting tough this time as compared to hostage dramas in earlier occasions. Veerappan has apparently told the two Chief Ministers, “The responses the two state governments have given me deserve to be thrown in the dustbin. A mere government order does not mean anything to me.”
This time around, the brigand has sought proof for all the actions the governments have taken towards implementing his demands. He has asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to ensure that the five TNLA ultras, whose release he has sought, be in the forests before the five-day deadline.
Meanwhile, one of the TNLA prisoners, “Radio” Venkateshan, has refused to seek bail unless all the cases against him are dropped. The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday dropped TADA charges against him, but said the Indian Penal Code (IPC) cases against him could not be withdrawn.
At the Madras High court, the judge adjourned the hearing of the IPC cases against him to September 13.
Experts, who have been keeping track of Veerappan, say the brigand is acting tough this time as compared to hostage dramas in earlier occasions. Veerappan has apparently told the two Chief Ministers, “The responses the two state governments have given me deserve to be thrown in the dustbin. A mere government order does not mean anything to me.”
This time around, the brigand has sought proof for all the actions the governments have taken towards implementing his demands. He has asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to ensure that the five TNLA ultras, whose release he has sought, be in the forests before the five-day deadline.
Meanwhile, one of the TNLA prisoners, “Radio” Venkateshan, has refused to seek bail unless all the cases against him are dropped. The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday dropped TADA charges against him, but said the Indian Penal Code (IPC) cases against him could not be withdrawn.
At the Madras High court, the judge adjourned the hearing of the IPC cases against him to September 13.