A case of criminal intimidation was registered against seven persons, including Anitha Sivanantham, younger brother of former State Minister Anitha Radhakrishnan, for allegedly threatening a transport operator to vacate his shed from a piece of land on East Perumal Maistry Street here on Monday.
Sivanantham has been cited as the fifth accused in the case registered by the South Gate police. Though he has not been arrested, the city police have arrested one Kaniraj, a real estate broker.
Anitha Radhakrishnan, who was a Minister in the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government, is the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate for Tiruchendur Assembly constituency in Thoothukudi district.
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Police said that four persons — Motilal, Suresh, Ramesh and Sakuntala — had held talks with one Subramanian, who owns the land on East Perumal Maistry Street, on which A. Balamanikandan (40) of Gomathipuram has the lorry shed.
The shed is said to be functioning there for nearly five decades. A civil dispute between Balamanikandan and Subramanian is pending before a local court.
Kaniraj, the real estate broker, had approached Balamanikandan claiming that Sivanantham had bought the said land and asked him to vacate it.
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In the small hours of Monday, one Jai Singarayar had gone to the shed and abused Gnanavel, the uncle of Balamanikandan.
He had also reportedly taken away some furniture and goods stocked at the shed. The South Gate police have registered the case for using abusive language, trespass, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation.