In yet another instance of DMK functionaries attacking business owners, an incident has been reported in Tiruneermalai where a DMK youth wing functionary assaulted a eatery owner for refusing to pay mamool.
Dhinesh is the brother-in-law of Chithra Devi who is the ward councillor in Ward No. 31 in Pallavaram, Chennai. He is also a youth wing functionary of the DMK. Ever since his sister-in-law got the post, Dinesh has been going around the area collecting ‘mamool’ (illegal money/tax collected from vendors and business owners).
He along with another local rowdy named Sukumar had gone to shops in Shankar Nagar area to get ‘mamool’. As the owner of the shop refused to pay the money, Dhinesh started throwing items from the shop creating a ruckus.
By the time police came to the spot, both Dhinesh and Sukumar absconded. They were later apprehended in Thiruneermalai and produced before the magistrate in Tambaram and were sent to Puzhal prison.
Sukumar is a history-sheeter and has several cases against him including that of murder.
சென்னை திருநீர்மலையில் மாமூல் கேட்டு தராத ஆத்திரத்தில் பிரியாணி கடை மீது தாக்குதல் நடத்திய திருநீர்மலை திமுக இளைஞர் அணி செயலாளர் தினேஷ், திமுக உறுப்பினர் சுகுமார் உள்ளிட்டோர் கைது#DMK | #Vandalism | #Chennaipic.twitter.com/v6vOBMjOV8
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This is not the first time that DMK functionaries have indulged in attacking business owners.
Just few days after the DMK came to power in May 2021, the party’s cadres attacked a biryani shop owner with a iron rod owing to personal animosity.
In August 2020, a DMK cadre’s son brandished billhook and demanded free groceries at a store in Cuddalore
In January 2020, DMK cadres attacked a biryani shop in Karur for refusing to give biryani for free that too after business hours.
(With inputs from Polimer News)
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