Cause of Pararajasingham murder revealed 

Oct 21, 2015

The Criminal Investigating Department has able to disclose the cause for the murder of the former Batticaloa TNA parliamentarian Joseph Pararajasingham.

The allegations of the murder of MP Pararajasingham is targeted against a paramilitary group led by Karuna Amman alias Vinayagamoorthi Muralidaran and Pillayan alias Sivanesathurai Chandrakanth who broke from the LTTE. During the 2004 parliamentary election few candidates who supported Karuna and Pillayan were included in the TNA nominations list. However Joseph Pararajasingham was able to win the election from the Batticaloa district. Meantime Pillayan wsa forcing the TNA to give the MP post to defeated candidate Rajan Sathyamoorthi. During this time Karuna Amman was not in the country and the LTTE killed Rajan Sathyamoorthi for supporting the Karuna Pillayan faction. Following Pararajasingham, a close associate of Pillayan, P. Arinendran was in the nominations list. Following the killing of Joseph Pararajasingham on 24th December 2005 in Batticaloa, Arinendran was sworn in as a parliament MP.

Out of two people who were directly involved for this killing, one person is not living and the other person is missing. However it is revealed that the arms needed to carry out this murder have been supplied by an officer attached to the army intelligence.

Although the murder was committed amid the presence of the police and the security forces there was no retaliation exercised against the murderers.

Pillayan has been taken into custody and it is being revealed that the murder of the former TNA parliamentarian Nadaraja Raviraj too was committed by the Karuna Pillayan group. Last week the CID questioned Karuna Amman regarding this murder.