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TADA case put off to December 5

A Mysore court Saturday adjourned till December 5 the hearing on 51 Terrorist And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act detenues, suspected to be associates of forest brigand Veerappan.

All the detenues, charged under the stringent anti-terrorist law, were produced here before principal and sessions judge B S Rajendra Prasad.

The Supreme Court had earlier rejected the release of the detenues on bail on an application filed by Abdul Karim, father of Special Task Force officer Shakeel Ahmed, who was killed in an ambush by Veerappan and his gang in the Meenyam forest range eight years ago.

The charges against detenues pertain to shooting five police personnel on August 14, 1992, murdering superintendent of police Harikrishna and Shakeel Ahmed in the same year, besides killing six Special Task Force personnel in an encounter near M M Hills the next year.

Among the accused was Simon, charged with masterminding the landmine blast that killed 23 STF personnel in 1993. The detenues included 12 women.

Some detenues, who spoke to mediapersons from the police van, Saturday expressed happiness at the release of Kannada actor Rajakumar.

UNI

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