Coimbatore: Special intelligence unit (SIU) officers detained five Muslim youths from the Coimbatore Railway Junction on Saturday afternoon for allegedly planning to murder the leaders of some Hindu outfits. According to police sources, four people from Vysarpadi, Pallavaram, Tindivanam and Chennai were travelling to Coimbatore from Chennai by train on Friday night, followed by a team of SIU and Intelligence Bureau officers. “When a youth from NH Road in Coimbatore arrived at the railway station to receive the gang, the officers detained all of them,” a police officer said. The five youths were grilled at the Peelamedu (crime) police station. Police sources said that Indu Makkal Katchi (IMK) founder Arjun Sampath, his son Omkar Balaji and Hindu Munnani leader Mookambigai Mani are facing threats from various people.TNN

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