😎THE DAILY OBSERVER-(70)😎
Fri 14 May 2021
S MURALI AND THE COPS
Today's interaction in this forum of ours on the above subject reminded me of an incident that took place while we were on one of the last major Exercises in OTA. After lunch, we were just lounging around in open space, practising the exchange of messages over the ANPRC. As usual there was a lot of static and it was difficult to hear what was being said. While twirling the frequency knobs at random, we suddenly hit the local Police frequency and there was a lot of radio traffic in Tamil. Murali, who as usual in those GC days, was napping at close quarters, jumped up excitedly on hearing this and asked for the handset. After listening in for a little, he abruptly barked over the radio :
CALLING ALL STATIONS. THIS IS IGIS. SHUT UP, REPEAT ALL STATIONS SHUT UP IMMEDIATELY. OVER.
There was a pin-drop shocked silence on the radio waves.
This was the first time any of us had seen this side of Murali and we came to know he could talk like this too when he felt like doing so. Till that moment, we had hardly heard his voice. Only someone with an intimate knowledge of Police procedures and practices could have done so ! Never take S Murali lightly is the moral of the story. Since those days, he has been going places and hob-nobbing with top brass of all kinds. There is no subject under the Sun ( or even beyond it ) that is beyond his expertise. At the drop of a hat, he can produce documentary proof in seven different languages to drive home his point. So please do not mess around with him.
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