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Coimbatore: Senior BJP leader and chairman of the Coir Board C P Radhakrishnan stoked a fresh controversy by alleging that police were involved in the Coimbatore riots of 1997 that followed the murder of traffic police constable R Selvaraj.Radhakrishnan represented the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency for two terms between 1998 and 2004. “All that followed were not done by BJP or Hindu Munnani. But Hindutva people who were not involving in any riots, were spending their days behind the bars. At the same time, we won’t bend to violence,” said Radhakrishnan. So, he was brutally murdered in the day light in November 1997..