The CTID has questioned a Tamil writer over a novel he has written about the murders of student leaders of Jaffna university.
On 16 June, Pradeepan Deepachelvan was summoned to its office at Paranthan in Kilinochchi and asked if he had any intention of reviving the LTTE through the book titled ‘Nadugal’, or Terrorist.
He has won acclaim by readers for the novel, the first post-war novel written in the north.
The writer explained to the CTID that all the characters, including the main one named Maran, were fictitious.
The intention is that war, deaths and destructions should not recur, Deepachelvan told the police further.
Also chairman of the Tamil Literary Forum, he was quizzed by the CTID on 11 April over the launch of a novel written by another Tamil writer N. Yogendran.