Kumaran Pathmanathan
| Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam | |
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One of the few known pictures of Selvarasa Pathmanathan
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| Born |
Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam April 6, 1955 Kankesanthurai, Dominion of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
| Other names | Selvarasa Pathmanathan Kumaran Pathmanathan and many others |
| Criminal charge | Criminal conspiracy, arms smuggling and for the violation of the Indian Terrorist Act and the Indian Explosive Act. Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. |
| Criminal status | Arrested by Sri lankan intelligence agents on August 5, 2009 and brought to Sri Lanka. Released on October 17, 2012. |
| Spouse(s) | Thai |
Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam (Tamil: செல்வராசா பத்மநாதன்; alias Selvarasa Pathmanathan, Kumaran Pathmanathan or simply KP) (born April 6, 1955) is a former prominent member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist organisation proscribed as a terrorist organization by 32 countries which, until May 2009, was a party to the Sri Lankan Civil War, and sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka. Pathmanathan is on Interpol's most wanted list for various charges including arms smuggling and criminal conspiracy. He is also wanted by India's law enforcement agencies in connection with the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and for violation of the Terrorist Act and the Indian Explosive Act. He was arrested on August 5, 2009. Pathmanathan was released from prison on 17 October 2012, when the allegations leveled against him were found baseless.
Little information is available on Pathmanthan's early life. He was born Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam on April 6, 1955 in the town of Kankesanthurai in the Jaffna District of Ceylon. Pathmanathan, who can converse in Tamil, English, French and Sinhalese is known to have left Sri Lanka in 1983.
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