An office bearer belonging to the DMK has been booked for cheating and extorting who had collected money from public claiming that he was going to make a film.
Kannan is a ward secretary of the DMK belonging to the 114th ward of Tiruvallikkeni-Chepauk constituency.
He had taken ₹2 lakhs from a man named Anbalagan from Chepauk saying that he was going to make a film. He had collected upto ₹6.5 lakhs from different people in the area.
However, as there was no progress about the film being made, people had started asking for their money back. Apart from not giving satisfactory response to those he owed the money, the DMK office bearer even went on to threaten them, sources said.
Following this, four people who had given money to the DMK office bearer had lodged a complaint with the Tiruvallikeni police station.
It is to be noted that the DMK office bearer has a history of indulging in criminal activities and duping people. He and his son were once arrested and kept in jail for cheating a youth and extorting money from him.
In 2017, Kannan’s son Kavithiran had befriended Moorthy, a native of Kallakurichi who had come to study at a college in Chennai. One report stated that the father-son duo had advertised in Moorthy’s college about their movie titled Nammakadha (produced by Kannan featuring his son Kavithiran) stating that anyone who wishes to act in this film could do so by investing in the movie and Moorthy had given ₹1 lakh to Kavithiran for this purpose in 2019.
Another local media report stated that Moorthy had given more than ₹1 lakh to Kavithiran who had supposedly asked Moorthy for money saying that he needed it for his father’s medical expenses.
When Moorthy had asked for his money back he was shown the finger. Depressed, Moorthy had gone back to his native Kallakurichi and tried to make his ends meet by working as a daily wage labourer. He once again tried to get his money back by going to Kavithiran’s house when both Kavithiran and his father Kannan had thrashed him. Following this, Moorthy had registered a police complaint and the father-son duo was arrested in kept in jail.
Not only this, when the DMK was in power in 2006, Kannan had attacked a woman who had participated in a protest against the state government demanding fulfilment of basic necessities. He was convicted of attempt to murder and was sentenced to three years prison.