Shah Commission recorded 1,027 Emergency detentions in Tamil Nadu
The Shah Commission recorded that 1,027 people were detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act in Tamil Nadu during the Emergency. The Hindu says 570 were opposition political figures, 139 belonged to banned organisations and 318 were classified as anti-socials, criminals and others.
The Shah Commission recorded 1,027 detentions under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act, or MISA, in Tamil Nadu during the Emergency, according to The Hindu. The figures included 570 people who belonged to opposition political parties. A further 139 detainees were identified as members of banned organisations.
The remaining 318 people were described as “anti-socials, criminals and others”, according to the supplied report. The report says the Commission found that DMK members were detained on vague grounds. It described those detentions as being against the spirit of MISA provisions.
The supplied material does not give the dates of the detentions, identify the individual detainees, or provide the Commission’s wider findings beyond the figures and assessment cited.
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