EPS Question Effectiveness Of 'Operation Minnal' Aimed To Apprehend History-Sheeters

A day after over 3,000 history-sheeters were nabbed under 'Operation Minnal', EPS wondered how the theft had taken place in the residence of an Inspector General if these many rowdies were rounded up.

Edappadi K Palaniswami | Credit: ABP Nadu

Chennai: AIADMK interim general secretary and opposition leader, Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) has questioned the effectiveness of the much-flaunted project of the state police 'Operation Minnal', a lighting drive against rowdies and history-sheeters in the state.

The former Chief Minister in a statement on Wednesday said that the state government has let off 2,390 history-sheeters from prisons across the state after taking an undertaking from them. He asked whether the state police were monitoring these people after getting discharged from jail.

தமிழகத்தில் தற்போது நடைபெற்று வரும் விடியா அரசின் ஆட்சியில், நிர்வாகத் திறமையற்ற, தடுமாறும் தலைமையின் கீழ் நடைபெறும் ஆட்சியில் பல்வேறு விசித்திரங்கள் அரங்கேறி வருகின்றன. தமிழக காவல்துறைத் தலைவர், “ஆப்பரேஷன் மின்னல்” என்று மாநிலம் முழுவதும் 72 மணி நேரத்தில், 1/3 pic.twitter.com/pabr7lvg6w

— Edappadi K Palaniswami (@EPSTamilNadu) October 12, 2022

He also referred to the robbery at the ancestral home of an Inspector General of Police in Uthukottai, Tiruvallur district, and wondered whether the police were effective in nabbing the rowdies under Operation Minnal programme.

Palaniswami also referred to the Director General of Police, C. Sylendra Babu's statement that in 72 hours the state police have arrested 3,905 rowdies under the 'Operation Minnal', and of the arrested, 705 were jailed.

The AIADMK leader wondered how the theft had taken place in the residence of an Inspector General if these many rowdies were rounded up.

He called upon the state government to keep a tab on the history-sheeters who were released and the growing crime reported from various districts of the state.

A day after the arrests under 'Operation Minnal', a fight erupted between two gangs of ganja peddlers at Alandur in Chennai. The two gangs used machetes and petrol bombs against each other. Nineteen people were arrested in connection with the incidents.