REGION DIGEST

REGION DIGEST

10.12.2021

YouTuber held for tweet against govt

YouTuber Maridhas, who posted a controversial tweet about the DMK government, was arrested by the cyber crime wing attached to the Madurai city police on Thursday. A team of police officials went to arrest Maridhas at his house situated in Surya Nagar. However, BJP cadres including former MLA and Madurai district president of BJP Dr P Saravanan also went there and picked up an argument with the police officials against his arrest. They questioned the police officials for the reasons for the arrest and raised slogans against the police and the government. But, police managed to arrest Maridhas and took him to the nearby K Pudur police station.

Decomposed body found in house: The decomposed body of a 50-year-old man was found at his house in Keezhadevadhanam in Trichy on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as A Selvakumar, 50 at Keezha Devadhanam. Neighbours noticed his body after a stench emanated from the house that had been locked from December 6. Locals informed his wife S Sujatha, 40, who was residing in Keeranur in Pudukkottai district. The cause of death was yet to the ascertained by the Fort police station.

Elephant tramples man to death: A wild elephant trampled a 70-year-old man to death at Anaikatti on Thursday morning. According to police, the man, identified as K Karai of Arnadukadu village near the Anaikatti forest, had gone to the forest to attend nature’s call. Police recovered the body and sent it for postmortem. The Thadagam police are investigating the incident.

TNSTC driver dies of heart attack: A 45-year-old bus driver parked the bus he was driving with more than 40 passengers safely on the roadside moments before he died of a cardiac arrest on Thursday morning. M Arumugam, attached to the Madurai mofussil bus depot, has been a driver with the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) for 13 years. He was driving on the Madurai-Kodaikanal route and left the Arapalayam bus stand in the city at 6.20am.