12-29-2007, 11:22 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Security beefed up after `threat` to Karunanidhi </b>
Coimbatore, Dec 29: Security has been beefed up ahead of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's visit to Tirupur near here afte<b>r local officials received a letter purportedly from a Muslim group warning that he would be "eliminated" by a suicide bomber</b>.
Tahsildar of Tirupur town, Sulochana, received a letter on Thursday, threatening that the Chief Minister would be "finished off" by a suicide bomber when he visits the town on December 29.
The letter, reportedly written in the name of 'Al-Umma Iyakkam', stated that Karunanidhi would be targeted because the Tamil Nadu government had not taken any step to increase the age limit to join police force, from 24 years to 29, despite an announcement, police said.
Hence, Karunanidhi would be eliminated by a human bomb when he visits Tirupur, the letter written in Tamil said.
This information should be passed on to the Tirupur Municipality chairman, the district collector and police superintendent, the letter said.
Karunanidhi is visiting Tirupur on Saturday to formally upgrade the town from a municipality to a Corporation.
He is scheduled to attend the meeting of the local body.
Over <b>1700 police personnel have been deployed and additional forces may be requisitioned</b>, a senior police official said.
More than<b> 500 armed guards would be placed in and around the dais </b>from where Karunanidhi is scheduled to address a meeting, the official said
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He must have send letter to himself, just to get more attention. Waste of money.
Coimbatore, Dec 29: Security has been beefed up ahead of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's visit to Tirupur near here afte<b>r local officials received a letter purportedly from a Muslim group warning that he would be "eliminated" by a suicide bomber</b>.
Tahsildar of Tirupur town, Sulochana, received a letter on Thursday, threatening that the Chief Minister would be "finished off" by a suicide bomber when he visits the town on December 29.
The letter, reportedly written in the name of 'Al-Umma Iyakkam', stated that Karunanidhi would be targeted because the Tamil Nadu government had not taken any step to increase the age limit to join police force, from 24 years to 29, despite an announcement, police said.
Hence, Karunanidhi would be eliminated by a human bomb when he visits Tirupur, the letter written in Tamil said.
This information should be passed on to the Tirupur Municipality chairman, the district collector and police superintendent, the letter said.
Karunanidhi is visiting Tirupur on Saturday to formally upgrade the town from a municipality to a Corporation.
He is scheduled to attend the meeting of the local body.
Over <b>1700 police personnel have been deployed and additional forces may be requisitioned</b>, a senior police official said.
More than<b> 500 armed guards would be placed in and around the dais </b>from where Karunanidhi is scheduled to address a meeting, the official said
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He must have send letter to himself, just to get more attention. Waste of money.