Two held for attack on Thuglak magazine editor Gurumurthy in Chennai

Published : Jan 27, 2020, 12:59 PM IST

Chennai police have arrested two people from a Tamil extremist group for allegedly attempting to attack noted journalist, columnist and editor of Thuglak magazine S Gurumurthy at his residence in the city in the early hours of Sunday.

Assailants attempt to hurl petrol bomb at Thuglak editor Gurumurthy's residence in Chennai

Chennai: Two people from a Tamil extremist group have been arrested for allegedly attempting to attack S Gurumurthy, editor of Thuglak magazine at his residence here.

"Informed police had arrested two from a Tamil Extremist group. I must thank and congratulate the TN for swift action. Within 2 Hrs DC, JC & CoP came home to assure me of action which they have done," tweeted Gurumurthy citing a media report about attack at his residence.

Six bike-borne assailants had on Sunday tried to hurl a petrol bomb at the residence of Gurumurthy in Mylapore here.

"Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage," Gurumurthy said in another tweet.

Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

Gurumurthy further tweeted saying, "The current story goes back to the arrest of Police Fakruddin in 2013 who confessed he had been caught before he could shoot me. He had done recce at home & office. The police then insisted I must have a gunman with me and advised us to install CCTV cameras at home and office."

The current story goes back to the arrest of Police Fakruddin in 2013 who confessed he had been caught before he could shoot me. He had done recci at home & office. The police then insisted I must have a gun man with me and advised us to install CCTV cameras at home and office
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
The current story goes back to the arrest of Police Fakruddin in 2013 who confessed he had been caught before he could shoot me. He had done recci at home & office. The police then insisted I must have a gun man with me and advised us to install CCTV cameras at home and office
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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The current story goes back to the arrest of Police Fakruddin in 2013 who confessed he had been caught before he could shoot me. He had done recci at home & office. The police then insisted I must have a gun man with me and advised us to install CCTV cameras at home and office
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

"In March 2014 we found attempts to break our house doors & found on CCTV masked strong man attempting to enter the home in diverse ways between 1.30 am & 3 am. It definitely was a serious thing. We have over 2 hours recording of his attempt. Then police guards were posted at home," he said in a subsequent tweet.

In March 2014 we found attempts to break our house doors & found on CCTV masked strong man attempting to enter the home in diverse ways between 1.30 am & 3 am. It definitely was a serious thing. We have over 2 hours recording of his attempt. Then police guards were posted at home
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
In March 2014 we found attempts to break our house doors & found on CCTV masked strong man attempting to enter the home in diverse ways between 1.30 am & 3 am. It definitely was a serious thing. We have over 2 hours recording of his attempt. Then police guards were posted at home
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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In March 2014 we found attempts to break our house doors & found on CCTV masked strong man attempting to enter the home in diverse ways between 1.30 am & 3 am. It definitely was a serious thing. We have over 2 hours recording of his attempt. Then police guards were posted at home
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

"Seeing the CCTV recording my friend Ajit Doval (now NSA) insisted on coming home to see how it could be secured and advised us what we should do and should not. Ravichandran JD IB also visited me personally often to keep me on the alert," he said.

Seeing the CCTV recording my friend Ajit Doval (now NSA) insisted on coming home to see how it could be secured and advised us what we should do and should not. Ravichandran JD IB also visited me personally often to keep me on the alert
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
Seeing the CCTV recording my friend Ajit Doval (now NSA) insisted on coming home to see how it could be secured and advised us what we should do and should not. Ravichandran JD IB also visited me personally often to keep me on the alert
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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Seeing the CCTV recording my friend Ajit Doval (now NSA) insisted on coming home to see how it could be secured and advised us what we should do and should not. Ravichandran JD IB also visited me personally often to keep me on the alert
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

"As our lifestyle doesn't allow rearing a dog, one of my long-standing friend started sending a dog with its guard everyday between 10 pm and 5 am. This has been happening for 5 years now. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible," he added in another tweet.

As our lifestyle doesn't allow rearing s dog, one of my long-standing friend started sending a dog with its guard everyday between 10pm and 5am. This has been happening for 5 years now. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
As our lifestyle doesn't allow rearing s dog, one of my long-standing friend started sending a dog with its guard everyday between 10pm and 5am. This has been happening for 5 years now. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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As our lifestyle doesn't allow rearing s dog, one of my long-standing friend started sending a dog with its guard everyday between 10pm and 5am. This has been happening for 5 years now. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

Also read: A tribal village in TN hoist tricolour in wooden flagpole to celebrate 71st R-Day

Chennai: Two people from a Tamil extremist group have been arrested for allegedly attempting to attack S Gurumurthy, editor of Thuglak magazine at his residence here.

Six bike-borne assailants had on Sunday tried to hurl a petrol bomb at the residence of Gurumurthy in Mylapore here.

"Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage," Gurumurthy said in another tweet.

Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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Lessons for the attackers. One, They must know I have been facing threats for 30 years. Theirs is not new to me. Two, they need better training and more courage.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

The current story goes back to the arrest of Police Fakruddin in 2013 who confessed he had been caught before he could shoot me. He had done recci at home & office. The police then insisted I must have a gun man with me and advised us to install CCTV cameras at home and office
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
The current story goes back to the arrest of Police Fakruddin in 2013 who confessed he had been caught before he could shoot me. He had done recci at home & office. The police then insisted I must have a gun man with me and advised us to install CCTV cameras at home and office
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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The current story goes back to the arrest of Police Fakruddin in 2013 who confessed he had been caught before he could shoot me. He had done recci at home & office. The police then insisted I must have a gun man with me and advised us to install CCTV cameras at home and office
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

In March 2014 we found attempts to break our house doors & found on CCTV masked strong man attempting to enter the home in diverse ways between 1.30 am & 3 am. It definitely was a serious thing. We have over 2 hours recording of his attempt. Then police guards were posted at home
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
In March 2014 we found attempts to break our house doors & found on CCTV masked strong man attempting to enter the home in diverse ways between 1.30 am & 3 am. It definitely was a serious thing. We have over 2 hours recording of his attempt. Then police guards were posted at home
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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In March 2014 we found attempts to break our house doors & found on CCTV masked strong man attempting to enter the home in diverse ways between 1.30 am & 3 am. It definitely was a serious thing. We have over 2 hours recording of his attempt. Then police guards were posted at home
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

Seeing the CCTV recording my friend Ajit Doval (now NSA) insisted on coming home to see how it could be secured and advised us what we should do and should not. Ravichandran JD IB also visited me personally often to keep me on the alert
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
Seeing the CCTV recording my friend Ajit Doval (now NSA) insisted on coming home to see how it could be secured and advised us what we should do and should not. Ravichandran JD IB also visited me personally often to keep me on the alert
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
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Seeing the CCTV recording my friend Ajit Doval (now NSA) insisted on coming home to see how it could be secured and advised us what we should do and should not. Ravichandran JD IB also visited me personally often to keep me on the alert
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

As our lifestyle doesn't allow rearing s dog, one of my long-standing friend started sending a dog with its guard everyday between 10pm and 5am. This has been happening for 5 years now. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
As our lifestyle doesn't allow rearing s dog, one of my long-standing friend started sending a dog with its guard everyday between 10pm and 5am. This has been happening for 5 years now. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020
">
As our lifestyle doesn't allow rearing s dog, one of my long-standing friend started sending a dog with its guard everyday between 10pm and 5am. This has been happening for 5 years now. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible.
— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 27, 2020

Also read: A tribal village in TN hoist tricolour in wooden flagpole to celebrate 71st R-Day

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Alleged attempt to hurl petrol bomb at residence of Thuglak magazine's editor S Gurumurthy

Attempt was carried out to hurl petrol bomb in Gurumurthy's residence in Mylapore at 3.30 am Sunday. Six assailants reportedly tried to carry out the attack but escaped when they were stopped by the police. The police immediately alerted the Mylapore police station. No one was hurt in the attack.

Police sources told, Later, the CCTV footage showed a few bike-borne men, towards whom alleged intruders ran and climbed over the bikes. The police have arrested three Accused Namely Tamil, Janardhanan and Sasikumar belonging to Periyar Dravidar kazhagam. Remaining three suspects they will be arrested soon, says police sources.

This Comes In the backdrop of Rajinikanth's controversial comments on Periyar EV Ramasamy, was sparked after actor Rajinikanth spoke about it in the Tughlak 50th anniversary event held at Chennai on January 14.

The actor had said that in 1971 at Salem, Periyar took out a rally in which undressed images of Lord Sri Ramachandramoorthy and Sita with a garland of sandal featured and no news outlet published it. None of the newspapers at the time published this news but Cho (Ramasamy) sir put it on the cover of the magazine and criticised it harshly.

However, his statements were met with severe opposition from Periyarist, who denied that the gods were naked and emphasising that there was no garland of chappals on the gods at the rally.Though they demanded an apology from Rajinikanth for ‘trying to mislead people by stating wrong information, Rajinikanth later refused to apologise for his remarks on Periyar. He said, I did not make up what I said, there are even published stories in media on it, I can show them. I will not apologize.

The youngsters who attempted to carry out the attack on Gurumuthy's house on Sunday, are yet to be nabbed. An investigation is underway.

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