Click to play videoChennai: The unprecedented seizure of rocket shells and launchers in Andhra Pradesh a few days ago has put the Tamil Nadu police in the heart of the rocket web.
The Andhra Pradesh police chief, who was in Chennai to meet his Tamil Nadu counterpart, reiterated that the rockets were made locally in Chennai, in one of the city's small industries belt. "The rockets were made at Ambattur," says DGP, Andhra Pradesh, JIT Swaranjeet Sen.
The Tamil Nadu police chief, however, says they has no concrete information to prove that the rockets were made in Chennai. The police is clueless as to how such a massive operation was carried out in the heart of the city.
Chennai city police had zeroed in on a sketch of a man - Sreenivas Reddy - a few days ago. They believe he is the 'rocketman', the one who carried out the entire operation.
They are now trying to locate the industrial unit where the rockets were actually made.
But as the investigations begin to reveal a clear Chennai link in the naxal operation, the issue has already taken political centre stage.
Jayalalithaa says the seizure reflects a collapse of law and order in the state. But the police force and the DMK say the arms were made and transported between August 2005 and May 2006, when Jayalalithaa was in power.
As the political blame game goes on, the issue itself is a reminder that it's time for the police to track the naxal trail in Tamil Nadu even more closely.
(with rohini Mohan)
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