Manimaran, 49, the union secretary of Thirumavalavan’s Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, who threatened to kill a Central Reserved Police Force (CRPF) soldier for criticizing Thirumavalavan was a history-sheeter with several criminal cases, including a POCSO case for sexually assaulting a school student and threatening her, while he was working as a school teacher.
Gurumurthy, 34, hails from Madurai district and is a CRPF soldier. He has been working for CRPF for the past 13 years and is currently working in the state of Meghalaya. He criticized the VCK chief Thirumavalavan who stoked separatism while speaking at a book release function at his party office in Chennai.
Following that, VCK functionary Manimaran and other VCK goons threatened the CRPF soldier and his family.
The VCK goon had said “You may be in Delhi. Your mother, father and siblings are here in Tamil Nadu only right?”.
Another VCK cadre went on to say “Who are you to speak against my leader? I will take the pulp out of you. I will kill you. I will come to the border and bomb you,”.
This video of VCK goons threatening the soldier went viral on social media.
Tamil Nadu BJP president Annamalai personally called the CRPF soldier and assured him that he would take care of his family and that he need not have to worry about the threat of VCK goons.
Manimaran, who hails from Koovathur next to Cuddalore, is the son of Uththiradam. He is the union secretary of VCK in Laththur and has previously worked as a Tamil teacher in a private school in Pudupatnam. While working as a teacher, he was constantly accused of sexually assaulting schoolgirls.
It has now been revealed that VCK Manimaran sexually harassed a 13-year-old eighth-grade student and threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the harassment. Despite the threat, the schoolgirl complained to her parents, who staged a protest in front of the school on ECR road in August. As a result of a protest by the parents and fellow students, VCK Manimaran was arrested under the POCSO act by Mamallapuram All Women Police.
He is also facing charges of assaulting a government bus driver, threatening the Vayalur-Cuddalore check dam construction contractor for money, threatening a Kalpakkam police officer, and other offenses. He has a criminal record dating back to 2010.
Recently, on November 25th, he and his followers threatened a lorry carrying quarry soil in the Kandigai area near Povunjur and demanded money. When his hooliganism was questioned, a family of Dharman and Karthikeyan was attacked. Later, he was arrested by Anaikattu Police and was lodged in jail. VCK Manimaran has been involved in ten cases so far, including POCSO.
(With inputs from Dinamalar)
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