Chennai, May 19: The Chennai City Police today arrested 11 DMK workers in connection with yesterday’s attack on media in front of DMK Treasurer M K Stalin’s house.
Police said all the 11 were arrested based on three complaints lodged by Times Now, Aaj Tak and Puthiya Thalaimurai news channels, who were attacked and threatened by the DMK workers while performing their professional duties.
The arrested were produced before a Magistrate and remanded in judicial custody.
The were initially lodged in Puzhal Prison on the city outskirts before they were shifted to the Vellore Central Psion.
Three journalists, including the camerapersons employed with Times Now and Aaj Tak were injured in the attack by a group of DMK cadres that took place after DMK President M Karunanidhi squarely blamed the media for the party’s debacle in the LS polls.
Several journalists have assembled outside Stalin’s residence following reports that he had offered to resign from all the party posts owning moral responsibility for the DMK’s rout in the Lok Sabha, in which the party failed to win even one seat of the 34 it had contested in Tamil Nadu.
Hundreds of DMK cadres had assembled in front of Stalin’s house and staged demonstrations to urging him not to quit the post, when the attack on the media took place.
Later, a group of DMK men aslo descended on the Times Now office and warned them and also the crew of Puthiya Thalaimurai of dire consequents.
Various media organisations and leaders of political parties condemned the attack and said it was an affront on the freedom of press. (Agency)
