CHENNAI: After condemnation from several quarters including Leader of Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswamy on the attack against a Television news cameraman who was filming office of a courier firm in Nungambakkam where NCB carried out search, a 47-year-old DMK man was arrested by the city police.
He was later let off on station bail.
The arrested man was identified as S Kalaichelvan. He was arrested based on a complaint from Senthil Kumar who suffered injuries in the attack.
Police sources said that Senthil had an argument with DMK cadres when he was filming and Kalaichelvan who came to intervene had slapped the cameraperson.
Sleuths from the Narcotics Control Bureau on Wednesday entered the house of Jaffer Sadiq who is believed to be the kingpin of a drug cartel operating from Delhi and smuggled out drugs worth over Rs 2,000 crore in last three years.
The investigators, who broke open the door as the house on Arulanandam Street in Santhome remained locked for days with Sadiq vanishing with his family, seized documents and gadgets and sealed the house.
The NCB, following the arrest of Mukesh and Mujibur Rahman of Chennai, and Ashok Kumar of Villupuram from Delhi two weeks ago, has been hunting for Sadiq.
Two weeks back a team of Delhi special police and NCB raided a godown in West Delhi and found the trio trying to pack 50 kg of drug pseudoephedrine into several packets under the fake labels of a multigrain food mix. They were arrested and the drug recovered.