3 Ministers booked on Income Tax’s plaint

An FIR has been filed against ministers Udumalai K Radhakrishnan, R Kamaraj and Kadambur Raju and others on a complaint by the Income Tax department, police said. Others named in the FIR include Thalavai Sundaram, Tamil Nadu special representative in Delhi, police said. The case has been filed under sections of IPC for offences including “obstructing a public servant in discharge of public functions” and “threat of injury to a public servant.” It had been registered two days after the I-T department had written to Chennai Commissioner of Police Karan Singha on the matter.