LTTE supporting Maoist activities - Indian govt tells tribunal 'Pose danger to sovereignty and unity of India'

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LTTE supporting Maoist activities - Indian govt tells tribunal 'Pose danger to sovereignty and unity of India'
India's union government yesterday (20) told a tribunal examining the validity of the ban on LTTE, that the outfit was supporting Maoist activities and would pose a danger to the sovereignty and unity of the country if it was not proscribed.
Deposing before the 14-member Unlawful Activities Prevention Tribunal, headed by Justice Vikramjit Singh, at its public hearing in India, P K Mishra, Secretary, Internal Security, Ministry of Home Affairs, said LTTE's extension of support to Maoist activities in India would also prove dangerous to the security of the country, PTI reported yesterday (20).
Mishra said an LTTE sympathiser Manivannan alias Castro was held on charges of abduction and arms smuggling in India after 2008. The LTTE was first banned in India in 1992 under the Unlawful (Prevention) Activities Act. This has been renewed once in two years since then.
The militant group is responsible for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. The latest notification extending the ban was issued in May last by the Indian Union Home Ministry which had said despite its decimation, LTTE was re-grouping in Tamil Nadu and remnants of its cadres could use India, especially Tamil Nadu, as a rear base for this purpose, the PTI further stated.
Courtesy: President Media Unit