Operation Puttur

Started in 1993 after the Babri Masjid demolition, the organization was noticed for the 1993 bombing of RSS office in Chennai, which killed eleven people.

The organization is tied to other attacks like the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts which killed 58 persons, while targeting Bharatiya Janata Party leader L. K. Advani during the city's election campaign.

[3] The terrorists were planning to strike the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple using umbrella bombs amidst the many pilgrims during the annual Brahmostavam festival.

[1] Police Fakrudin, Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik were suspects in plotting attacks on Bharathiya Janata Party leader L.K.

Advani during October 2011, murder of BJP's Arvinth Reddy, Auditor Ramesh, Murugan and Hindu Munnani leader Vellaiyappan.

On October 23, 2012, Doctor Arvinth Reddy, the then state medical wing secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party was killed in front of his clinic in Kosapet area of Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

[6] However, in December 2013, a Special Investigation Division of the CBCID pointed their suspicion towards Fakruddin and his associates Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik.

[11] On July 1, 2013, Vellaiyappan, aged 45, Tamil Nadu state secretary of Hindu Munnani was in his two-wheeler in Vellore going to Ramakrishna Mutt when he was attacked on his head from behind.

[14] Jayalalitha, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu constituted a Special Investigation Division to probe the murder of "Auditor" Ramesh.

[15][16] Fakrudin evaded arrest for 8 years and along with Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik in a group called "Muslim Defence Force" were planning to kill a public figure in Tamil Nadu in 2013.

One of the police constables sustained injuries in the operation and eventually died in hospital; of the four terrorists who were holed up, two – namely Malik and Ismailn – were captured.

A twelve-member police team from Tamil Nadu visited the place few weeks after the operation along with Malik to hold enquiries about the duo.

View of Puttur town from the top of a hill