Police sources in Maduarai reported that Sri Lanka budget airline Mihin Lanka’s office in Madurai was attacked by pro Eelam Tamil activists.

The Sri Lanka's state owned budget airline Mihin Lanka commenced flights to Madurai on 7 December 2012. Madurai was its 10th destination. The Airbus 321 with 212 seating capacity operating three days a week to Madurai benefits large number of relatives of Sri Lanka's Indian-origin plantation Tamils living in South India.

With the atmosphere remaining volatile in Tamil Nadu over the Eelam Tamils issue, activists belonging to pro-Eelam Tamil organisations including Aathi Thamilar Peravai and Naam Tamilar Iyakkam earlier blocked the road demanding that the Union Government vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meeting in Geneva.

Aathi Thamilar Peravai (ATP) is a people's movement founded by Adhiyamaan in 1994 at Coimbatore district in the west zone of Tamil Nadu, India. Its goals are to re-establish economic, cultural and social status among the "Arunthathiyar" community who are considered outcaste, oppressed by all other caste and non-caste societies and whose living condition is below the poverty line.

Naam Thamilar Iyakkam led by Seeman was established on 18 May 2009 in Madurai after the genocide of the Tamil people to fight for their rights and freedom in Sri Lanka

 The glass windows of the office, located in a city hotel, were damaged, and further inquiry was on, police said, adding, 30 people have been arrested.

Members of the Aathi Thamilar Peravai also attempted to block trains at the railway junction here, but were detained by police.

Yesterday, about 40 students of a government law college here allegedly damaged a party flag post and notice board of Janata Party office here, protesting its chief Subramanian Swamy’s recent meeting with the Lankan President, PTI reports.