Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Nedumaran holding multiple Indian passports

According to sources close to former LTTE international finance head Emdon Seevaratnam, the seventy five year old pro LTTE activist in Tamil Nadu Pala Nedumaran is in possession of multiple Indian passports. He had applied to the British High Commission in Chennai with one passport for entry clearance to the UK which was refused on the grounds of his involvement with the proscribed LTTE. A refusal stamp had been duly placed in the passport preventing him entry to the country.

Pala Nedumaran had used another Indian passport to apply for visa to enter France at the same time. The French Embassy in Delhi without assessing his bona fides granted him the Schengen visa. Schengen visa facilitates the traveller to freely visit any European Union countries without further visa’s or entry clearance from the visiting EU country within the duration of the visa given by one Schengen country.

Having visited France and participated in political activities of the LTTE, the controversial leader arrived at the Heathrow Airport with the Schengen visa. Pala Nedumaran is on the Immigration alert system due to his involvement with the LTTE and when he reached the Immigration desk at the airport the computer alerted about him. He was said be taken in for questioning and held for three hours.

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