Friday, September 24, 2010

COLOMBO CRIME DIVISION ARRESTS PRESS OWNER IN JAFFNA



Tamil Net
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A special team of Colombo Crime Division arrested the owner of Churapi Achchakam (printing press), C. Kuruthev, in Jaffna Tuesday and took him to Colombo for inquiry, sources in Jaffna said. Kuruthev’s brother, the General Manager of the Tamil daily Namathu Eezhanaadu, C. Sivamaharajah, had been assassinated at his house in Thellippazhai in August 2006. Sri Lanka Minister Douglas Devananda, the head of Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), had sought to acquire Churapi Achchakam to print a Tamil Daily in the name of Thinamurasu to which Kuruthev had not consented, media circles in Jaffna said.

Namathu Eezhanaadu daily had been printed in Churapi Achchakam and after the killing of Sivamaharajah it had stopped printing the daily.


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