DMK president M.K. Stalin has criticised Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay over what he described as continuing murders, drug trafficking and inadequate police action across the state, citing recent cases in Dindigul, Sivaganga, Erode and Vedaranyam.
In a social media statement reported by Dinamalar, Stalin questioned whether people released on bail in criminal cases were being monitored by the police. He referred to the recent killing of a woman in Dindigul district after she had reportedly visited a police station to sign for bail. Stalin said he had earlier asked whether authorities were tracking accused persons released on bail, and argued that a subsequent killing in Sivaganga indicated that effective monitoring was not taking place.
According to the report, a man identified as Madhan, described by Stalin as a rowdy who had been arrested in a murder case and later released on bail, was chased and killed in Sivaganga. Stalin attributed responsibility for the incident to police negligence. The report does not include a separate police response to that allegation.
Stalin also referred to the kidnapping, sexual assault and killing of a nurse near Perundurai. He said her body was found only after five days. The statement presented the case as another example of the gaps in policing and crime prevention, although the supplied report does not provide details of the investigation, arrests or official findings in that case.
The DMK leader further alleged that members of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam had been involved in drug-related cases. He cited the reported arrest of a party functionary in Vedaranyam in a cannabis-smuggling case and the arrest of another functionary, referred to as ‘Meth’ Boopalan, over alleged attempts to manufacture and sell methamphetamine. The claims were made in Stalin’s statement and were not independently detailed in the report.
Stalin questioned whether the state police were unable to act against those accused of drug offences or had ignored them because of their political affiliations. He called on the Chief Minister to keep members of his party under control and to exercise direct responsibility over the police department.
The statement also criticised the Chief Minister for distributing responsibility for several departments among other ministers and alleged that policing had effectively been outsourced. Stalin linked the continuing incidents of sickle attacks and drug-trafficking cases detected by central investigation agencies to what he described as insufficient attention to the police portfolio.
Stalin ended the statement by referring to the Chief Minister’s public message urging people to give up drug use and take up sport. He said the Chief Minister should first stop taking a break from the police department and take charge of it. The supplied report does not carry a response from the Chief Minister, the Tamil Nadu government or the state police to the allegations.
