CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu DGP C Sylendra Babu’s office on Saturday refuted BJP state president K Annamalai’s charge that the state police failed to act for four days despite receiving a specific terror alert from the Centre on October 18. There was no specific alert from the Centre, said a statement from Babu’s office.
The alert, dated October 18, was received by Tamil Nadu government only on October 21, it said and added that the alert was general in nature. It was intimated to field police officials the same day, it said. The statement also denied that there was any delay in referring the case to the National Investigating Agency (NIA).
