Lankan grilled by CID, held for living in city without passport

According to a senior police officer, the arrested person was identified as S Danukka Roshan (31), a resident of Colombo in Sri Lanka. He had been residing in the city after he reached Rameswaram without a passport.

On Tuesday, a special team from the Intelligence Bureau, Special Division CID and Q Branch reached his house situated on the eleventh floor of an apartment complex at Parivakkam junction on Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway near Poonamallee. Police said that he was staying there with his wife and children. Apart from Roshan, there were two other men from Sri Lanka in the apartment. They were let off after verifying their background.

The sleuths were trying to find out if Roshan was linked to recent terror attacks in Sri Lanka in which over 250 people killed in serial bomb blasts on Easter Sunday this year. Sources noted that there was information that he had met one thebombers involved in Lankan serial blast.

After a detailed inquiry, the police could conclude that Roshan had come to India illegally, a year ago. He reached Rameswaram and from there, he came to Chennai, police sources said. As sleuths found Roshan was not in possession of a passport, they alerted the local Poonamallee police who arrested him under the Passport Act.

Sources noted that the security agencies were exploring the possibilities of TN links with suicide bombers who triggered terror on Easter day in the island nation.

There were doubts that Zahran Hashim, one of the suicide bombers killed in the explosion, was in touch with certain individuals in the State.It may be recalled that the suicide bombers had targeted churches and star hotels on Easter days which led to the death of over 250 people.