Days after three petrol bombs were hurled at RSS worker MS Krishnan's house on Saturday evening, Madurai Police Commissioner, T Senthil Kumar on Monday said one more was arrested for throwing petrol bombs. Two persons were arrested in this issue. But, in the recent past, due to a streak of such incidents, a total of 14 persons were taken into custody in separate incidents across the state.
"One more arrested for throwing petrol bomb at RSS worker Krishnan's house in Madurai on September 24," Madurai CP T Senthil Kumar said, as quoted by news agency ANI. And Tamil Nadu DGP Sylendra Babu said that so far 14 people have been arrested and 11 cases were registered in connection with kerosene bomb incidents in Tamil Nadu.
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RSS worker Krishnan claimed that 20 sangh workers were attacked in Tamil Nadu so far.
Earlier in the previous week, in a fourth such incident in three days, a petrol bomb was hurled at the residence of RSS functionary Seetharaman house at Chitlapakkam on Saturday. No one was injured in the incident.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu BJP wrote to Home Minister Amit Shah about the increasing attacks against BJP and RSS workers in the state.
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