Former LTTE operatives held in Sri Lanka

Four former LTTE operatives have been arrested by police in Sri Lanka on suspicion of trying to revive the banned group’s separatist activities. The police’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) yesterday issued a receipt acknowledging the arrest of one Krishnapillai Kaileshan who allegedly operated as the LTTEs eastern Batticaloa district intelligence senior. He was being questioned, police sources said.

It was also said that three more intelligence seniors from the eastern districts of Ampara and Batticaloa and Jaffna in the north had also been arrested in the recent days.