The committee asked the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw charges against Nedumaran, Suba Veerapandian (then spokesman of Marumalarchi Dravidsa Munnetra Kazhagam), Paavanan alias Pudukottai Paavanan, Thayappan and Shahul Hameed.
The Madras high court on Tuesday issued notices to the government and the Central Bureau of Investigation on a petition seeking extradition of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam operative Kumaran Padmanabhan, one of the main suspects in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, from Sri Lanka.
Denying any involvement, Army Chief Shantha Kottegoda asked the Tigers to produce proof.
P V Bakthavatchalam will be part of the international panel of lawyers being constituted to defend Saddam Hussein.
The LTTE are already banned in India, the US and Britain.
The Intelligence Bureau has issued an alert about a possible attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi using a human bomb either during his visit to Patna or at the public rally he is scheduled to attend in Muzaffarpur on July 25.
The delegation said it was suspending its role until the president and prime minister resolved their differences.
President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said the truce her prime minister signed with Tamil rebels is illegal, reports the BBC
'There is no clarity in the government's offer,' the LTTE said. 'It does not specifically address the concerns raised by the Tigers.'
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has threatened to invoke provisions of POTA against the Union minister for his speech allegedly supporting the LTTE.
The Mumbai-born gangster's nationality is listed as "Indian", with a recorded Indian passport which was subsequently revoked by the government of India and then goes on to list a string of Indian and Pakistani passports acquired by him and misused.
"We will leave the government if the President does not withdraw the joint mechanism plan with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by June 15," the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or People's Liberation Front said.
The "message" was given to Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen during his meeting with LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The government claims that the tigers have two aircraft.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said it was not bound by a declaration issued by international donors who pledged some $4.5 billion to help rebuild Sri Lanka at a June 2003 meeting in Tokyo.
Harin Peiris also said Kumaratunga would break up the island's embattled northeastern province.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has made application to the POTA Review Committee.
The Tamil rebel outfit, however, vowed to resolve differences with V Muralitharan without bloodbath.
Chief Velupillai Prabhakaran is discussing the crisis with seniors from the eastern Batticaloa district where the regional commander had shown dissent.
He was accused of making pro-LTTE remarks during a public meeting at Poolathur in the district in 1998.
His debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage, set in the backdrop of the civil war.
The LTTE chief's parents were settled in Tiruchirapalli.
We present to you a special series that we had done 10 years after the IPKF withdrew from the island nation
If the Sinhala chauvinistic ruling elite continue to deny the rights of our people and if the conditions of oppression continue, we have no alternative other than to secede, warned LTTE supremo Prahbakaran.
President Kumaratunga has embroiled the nation in a crisis by sacking three ministers and suspending parliament.
The Sri Lankan prime minister also vowed to reopen Parliament, which was suspended on Tuesday by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
An LTTE spokesman said the proposals were handed over to the Norwegian ambassador Hans Brattskar.
The outfit was banned in 1991 soon after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination at Sriperumbudur near Chennai.
'The US calls on the LTTE to renounce terrorism and cease terrorist acts, including political assassination, and to comply with terms of the ceasefire agreement they signed,' state department spokesman Philip Reeker said.
A central team wants to know if Sri Lankan Tamils want to return to their country.
Polls opened at 7 am local time and would close at 5 pm with some 12,845 polling stations being set up throughout the country for 15.9 million voters, who will choose a successor to President Maithripala Sirisina.
It was unhappy with the government's proposals on ways to rebuild war-hit Tamil parts of the country.
The rebels criticised the government for specifying the extend of the rebels' involvement in the proposed administrative body.
Anton Balasingham recently had a kidney transplant in Norway and his condition has been further complicated by diabetes.
