The police claim that one of the arrested people is an ISIS sympathiser. The conspiracy was apparently designed in the wake of anti-Islam rhetoric endorsed by the two leaders of the Hindu groups.
Coimbatore: Five persons were arrested in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu for allegedly conspiring to murder two Hindu leaders Arjun Sampath from Hindu Munnani and Anbu Mari of the Shakti Sena and inflame communal violence during Ganesh Chaturthi. The men were arrested by the Special Investigation Unit of Coimbatore Police on Sunday, September 3. The conspiracy was apparently revealed by closely monitoring the social media posts.
As stated by the police the accused have been identified as, R Ashik (25), Safar Sadiq (29), S. Samsudeen (20), S. Shalavuddin (25) and S. Ismail (25), who were supposedly taken into detention and interrogated for 24 hours by the Special Investigation Unit at Coimbatore railway junction. The police claim that one of the arrested people is an ISIS sympathiser. The conspiracy was apparently designed in the wake of anti-Islam rhetoric endorsed by the two leaders of the Hindu groups. They have been given security in light of this apparent conspiracy as the police believe that they wanted to target leaders of the Hindu Makkal Katch and create communal discord.
They were later presented in a Fast Track Court 1 and are remanded into police custody till Sept 4. Supposedly, 5 motorcycles, 5 machetes and 5 mobile phones were seized from them. As reported, they have been charged under the Sections 143, 120 (B) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 15, 16, 18, 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.