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Jaya urges Naidu to release 32 TN woodcutters.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa wrote to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu seeking his intervention for the release of 32 suspected woodcutters from Tamil Nadu who were arrested by that State\'s police on August 5, describing them as “innocent”.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa wrote to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu seeking his intervention for the release of 32 suspected woodcutters from Tamil Nadu who were arrested by that State's police on August 5, describing them as “innocent”.
The 32 persons hail from Chennai, Tiruvannamalai and Vellore districts in Tamil Nadu, she told Naidu, adding that they were reportedly travelling to Tirupati by Garudadri Express when they were arrested by Andhra Pradesh police at Renigunta Railway Station.
They had been charged under different sections of IPC and the AP Forest Act, 1967, and lodged in Chittoor Jail, she told Naidu in a letter on Saturday.
“These persons, who were only passengers in a train, have been arrested on the suspicion of alleged forest related offences. It is not clear how they have been accused of forest related offences when they were nowhere near the forest,” she said.
“I request you to urgently intervene in the matter and facilitate their immediate release.
I am also deputing two advocates of the government of Tamil Nadu to liaise with your officers in securing the immediate release of the 32 innocent persons from Tamil Nadu,” Jayalalithaa said.
DMK president M Karunanidhi said those arrested were not woodcutters as was being made out by Andhra Pradesh police and sought “friend” Naidu’s intervention in their release.
“Considering that Chief Minister (Jayalalithaa), friend Chandrababu Naidu, places importance on good relations between the people of the two States, he should personally intervene and ensure their release,” Karunanidhi said in a statement.
