She did not know whether he was alive or dead. Sometime later the STF heard about it, paid frequent visits to her house and harassed her and her children. One day in 1992 they dismantled her well-sweep and took it away, preventing her from drawing water. She was forced to leave the area. Cases of this kind have continued ever since.
Life is unpredictable.
There had been several cases of people going to the paddy fields being shot by the STF and then unbelievable reasons given. There have been incidents even under the PA government, which show that the people are still denied normal justice. Two students Rameshkumar and Sivanandarajah were stopped on the road by the STF, whose detention was witnessed. Later, the bodies turned up in the Kalmunai hospital mortuary. The Magistrate found the version given by the STF contradictory and false.