Arrest of ISI spies has created panic among people: Karunanidhi

DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday said the arrest of ISI spies and their activities in Tamil Nadu has created panic among people and asked why no arrests have been made in connection with the May 1 twin bomb blasts in a train at the Central Railway Station in which a woman was killed. 

Referring to the arrest of alleged ISI spy Arun Selvarjan last week by the National Investigation Agency, he said it was not the first time ‘such terrorists’ had been apprehended during the AIADMK rule. 

He recalled that while one Thameem Ansari was arrested last year from Tiruchirappalli on espionage charges, another operative, Zakir Hussain, was nabbed here along with three of his accomplices early this year. 

All of them had worked at the behest of a Pakistani consular official in Sri Lanka, he said.  ‘Reports of movement of terrorists and their activities in Tamil Nadu has created panic among people,’ Karunanidhi said in a statement.