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By: V Sundaram, IAS, Retd. February 27, 2007 Views expressed here are author’s own and not of this website. Full disclaimer is at the bottom. 
FeedbackOne need not go to the streets of Baghdad or Kabul to witness gruesome deeds of Islamic terrorism. On 17 December, 2006 at Tenkasi town in Tirunelveli district, a young Hindu Munnani leader Kumar Pandian and his friends Sekar were walking through a Muslim street in Tenkasi. They were way laid by two Muslims. These two Muslims who were later to turn themselves into marauders put this question to Kumar Pandian: "How the hell can you start an Ambulance Service in Tenkasi? Do you know what will be the consequences for you and your family?" Kumar Pandian politely replied: "Please mind your business. For the sake of the poor and helpless people and for their welfare, we are determined to start an Ambulance Service in Tenkasi." Even as he was completing this reply, some Muslim marauders and terrorists who were in hiding came out into the open, surrounded Kumar Pandian and started attacking him with sword (Aruval) and knife and other lethal weapons and killed him in a brutal and barbarous manner. After killing him, they escaped in an auto rickshaw. Fortunately, Sekar survived the attack with minor injuries. The news of Kumar Pandean's murder by Islamic terrorists spread like wild fire throughout Tirunelveli district. More than 6000 Hindus joined together and took out a procession to protest against the brutal murder and the total indifference of the local police in the vital matter of absolute maintenance of law and order and public tranquility in the area. There was a total hurtle and all the shops in Tenkasi were closed. All the 6000 anguished and agitated men who participated in the procession raised slogans to the following effect: "Arrest the criminal and murderous Islamic terrorists! Arrest the main culprit who behind the scene was mainly responsible for the murder". V T S Rahman Batcha, a local businessman of the area! Till this is done, we will not allow any post-mortem to be done on the slaughtered body of Kumar Pandian! After watching the convulsive conflagration, the police spoke to the agitating Hindu members of the public about the need for peace. The Superintendent of Police, Tirunelveli, Senthamaraikannan requested the men who took out the procession to give up the agitation. The Hindu leaders who had organized the agitation made it clear to the police that they would not give up their agitation till the criminal offenders were arrested. Later, the District Collector Prakash also held peace talks with the agitated members of the public. The talks remained unsuccessful. Then the police resorted to lathi charge against the Hindus. Detailed informal enquiries conducted in Tenkasi among the Hindu community revealed that the police were functioning in a partisan and one-sided manner, thereby giving a clear public signal that they were patronizing the Muslims all the time. During the informal enquiry, many local Hindu leaders clearly stated that the Hindus of the area felt themselves powerless and impotent against the money power and political influence of the local Muslim leaders enjoying the full informal support of the local police and the Government noted for its Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu-hating, the so called "Mada Sarbatra" and "Manidha Neya" public postures and policies. Kumar Pandean's father Sorna Thevar is steeped in sorrow. Kumar Pandian has left behind his wife Jayanthi who is 32 and a one year old female child by name Swati. What makes the tragedy more poignant is that Jayanthi is in an advanced stage of pregnancy. She has said: "Tenkasi Inspector Chakravarthi is responsible for my husband's murder. My husband used to get threatening phone calls and he always used to keep the Inspector of Police informed about such threats. The Inspector Chakravarthi treated my husband's complaints with supreme contempt". Sorna Thevar, mourning the murder of his beloved son Kumar Pandian, has categorically confirmed: "Some rich Muslims of the area have hired some paid mercenaries to get my son killed in so brutal a manner and I demand a CBI enquiry into the whole incident." It is reliably understood that Kumar Pandian had already given several written complaints to the local police that he was expecting some Muslim elements in the area to physically attack him and despite these written complaints, the local police did not care to register the FIR. It is also understood that at a local meeting of the TMMK organised by the Muslims of the area, specific speeches were made on a public platform to the effect that men like Kumar Pandian and a few others (with their specific names given) would be suitably beheaded and taught a lesson, etc. The Police remained indifferent and neutral even after these blatant blackmailing public signals. In this context, we should remember that some terrorist Muslim groups in Coimbatore had specifically announced the names of Veera Siva and Ganesan and later killed them. Keeping all this background in view, the State BJP General Secretary Pon Radhakrishnan has declared: "I do not view the murder of Kumar Pandian as an isolated killing of an individual. Through this murder, the Islamic terrorists have given a deathly warning to the Indian nation and society. I appeal to the Government to take appropriate and stringent action against these anti-social and anti-national elements." What is amazing is that the local police themselves have admitted that the killing of Kumar Pandian was executed in a planned and methodical manner after keeping a close watch over his movements. The police have been able to arrest two Islamic terrorists called Hanifa and Abdulla in this connection. It is understood that these two terrorists told IG Sanjeev Kumar: "The only issue was the construction of a Palli Vasal (Mosque) near the Kasi Viswanatha Swami Temple in Tenkasi. That is why we killed Kumar Pandian". Both the murderers and Kumar Pandian were friends. The irony is that one of the two murderers called Abdulla was a Hindu and converted to Islam only about six months ago. Abdulla was known as Murugesan before conversion. His father is Karuppiah Pillai and mother is Mariammal. They live in Achanpudur village near Tenkasi. Karuppiah Pillai has said: "The moment I got the news that my son has converted to Islam, I made it clear to him not to set foot on my house again. Hanifa is responsible for my son's conversion and it is he who took my son to places like Coimbatore and Mannadi and trained him in the methodology and acts of terrorism. He has converted my son into a murderer." During the enquiry, when the police asked Hanifa and Abdulla as to why they murdered their known friend Kumar Pandian, they coolly replied: "When we are called upon to choose between our Islamic Faith and Friendship, there is no hesitation about the answer. That is why we voted for our faith and killed our friend." The secular mafia of mass media in India under the deathly stranglehold of so called secular Governments has deliberately chosen to completely black out the lethal crime relating to the cold blooded and brutal murder as it did in the case of Sukhanand Shetty, BJP Taluk president, in the city of Mangalore on 1 December, 2006 by a criminal gang of 12 Muslims. Kumar Pandian was an up and coming Hindu Munnani leader noted for his outstanding qualities of leadership and radical views relating to the advancement of the sacred cause of Sanathana Dharma and Hindutva. He had led the Hindus of the area with fearlessness and courage against all criminal and anti-social elements in the community. V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
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