DMK leaders arrested over land grab charges

Chennai:  The Tamil Nadu police have arrested two DMK strongmen this morning on land grab charges. In Chennai, police have picked up the Chepauk MLA J Anbazhagan for forcing a paper mill owner in Tirupur to part with his property.

In Salem, former DMK Minister, Veerapandi Arumugam, was arrested following a fresh land grab complaint.

It was on Monday that Mr Arumugam had surrendered to police in two other similar cases, and was on bail.

Last week the police had also arrested four close aides of M K Alagiri in Madurai on land grab charges.

The AIADMK government has set up special police cells across Tamil Nadu to deal with such complaints.

DMK chief Karunanidhi has called this political vendetta, and that Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is deriving pleasure foisting cases against men in his party.