THOOTHUKUDI: Tamil Maanila Bahujan Samaj Party deputy general secretary Santhiyur Rasa, while speaking to reporters at the Thoothukudi airport on Saturday, blamed the state government for several of the accused persons obtaining bail in the case related to the murder of former BSP leader K Armstrong. A Porkodi, general secretary of the party and the wife of the slain leader, was also present. Addressing the media, Rasa said that several accused persons in the murder case obtained bail after the state government got a stay on the Madras High Court’s directions to transfer the case to the CBI. “It is only because of the state government that the accused got bail in the case. Further, he dismissed the state government’s distribution of Rs 5,000 to nearly 1.3 crore women as “an election strategy”.

Source: Indian Express February 15, 2026 17:17 UTC