The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday, February 2, 2024, launched simultaneous searches at the premises of several Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) functionaries for their alleged links with foreign-based cadres and sympathisers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a proscribed organisation.
According to sources in the Central agency, the searches were a follow up of the investigation into the Omalur arms case in Tamil Nadu. The case pertains to the seizure of arms, ammunition and other materials used for manufacturing weapons from two persons, M. Naveen Chakravarthy (25) of Kitchipalayam, a BCA graduate, and J. Sanjay Prakash (25) of Shevapet, an engineering graduate, by the Tamil Nadu police in Salem district. Investigators later arrested A. Kabilar alias Kabilan (25) who helped the duo manufacture guns at a rented house.
The NIA, which took over the case from the State police, filed a chargesheet against the three suspects, accusing them of conspiring and associating themselves with the LTTE and creating an organisation called the World Tamil Justice Court, to pursue their goals.
