Chennai, Sept 14 (BPNS)

Six Hindu Munnai workers were arrested after they ransacked an eatery named after Dravidian ideologue and social reformer, ‘Thanthai Periyar’. The eatery owner Prabakaran in his complaint before the police said that the eatery was to be opened on Wednesday but the miscreants reached the premises on Tuesday evening and destroyed the board and the inside of the eatery.

Prabakaran was running a gas agency and a chicken meat stall. He said that a few Hindu Munnani workers had earlier approached him and informed him that he could not use the name of Periyar in their area.

Speaking to media persons, Prabakaran said, “ I am from Karamadai and those who attacked the eatery were from Kannampalayam. They did not target me and instead attacked the eatery as they were unhappy with the name.”

On the complaint from Prabakaran, Karamadai police registered an FIR under various Sections of the IPC  including Section 147 (punishment for rioting), 447( criminal trespass), 294(b)( using obscene language),323( voluntarily causing hurt), and Tamil Nadu Open places ( prevention of disfigurement) Act.

The arrested were produced before the judicial magistrate court and remanded in judicial custody.