More than 100 days after an environmental activist T Mugilan alias Shanmugam went missing soon after holding a press conference in Chennai on February 15, exposing the alleged role of the police in the violence during the anti-Sterlite protest, the Crime Branch CID is looking for him “as an accused” in a rape case.
The activist disappeared under mysterious circumstances after boarding a train from Chennai Egmore to Madurai.
Since he was actively involved in protests against the nuclear power plant in Kudankulam, illegal sand mining in southern districts, the hydrocarbon project in Neduvasal and Sterlite plant in Thoothukudi, political parties and rights activists were apprehensive about his safety, forcing the Tamil Nadu government to transfer the case to the CB-CID.