Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "இராணுவப் புரட்சி" in Tamil language version.
A quick and decisive extra-legal seizure of governmental power by a relatively small but highly organized group of political or military leaders …
But even if the most laudatory of motivations be assumed, the fact remains that the coup d'état is a deliberately illegal act of the gravest kind and strikes at the highest level of law and order in society …
Clearly the coup is by definition illegal