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Karunanidhi rejects BJP's demand for CBI probe into Coimbatore blasts

The Tamil Nadu government today virtually rejected the Bharatiya Janata Party's demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the activities of the Muslim 'fundamentalists' in the state since 1983 and the February 14 serial blasts in Coimbatore in which 60 people were killed.

He was talking to the media after receiving, from a BJP delegation led by state party president K N Lakshmanan, a memorandum supported by one million signatures demanding a CBI probe.

Karunanidhi said he explained to the BJP leaders how irrelevant it would be to conduct a probe into incidents since 1983 and the serial blasts in which the special investigation team of the state crime branch had almost completed the probe and the chargesheet was to be filed by the month-end.

Moreover, the question of ordering a CBI probe into the blasts was pending before the Madras high court and the CBI, in an affidavit filed before the court, had expressed its inability to take up the probe, citing lack of manpower and facilities, he pointed out.

UNI

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