A case has been registered against the DMK district literary wing organizer who attacked a ration shop employee near Kamuthi in Ramanathapuram district.
Kumaraiya Kannaiya (52), who hails from Araikudi near Kamuthi, has been working as a salesman in ration shops in villages including Karungulam, Paakuvetti, and Jeganathapuram.
On Monday, he cleaned the Karungulam ration shop as they planned to distribute the second installment of the COVID relief fund of 2000 and groceries kit the following day.
Ayyanar, the Ramanathapuram DMK literary wing organizer and husband of Kamuthi Panchayat Union deputy chairman Chitra Devi, who was standing at the Karungulam bus stand at the time, called Kannaiya and questioned him why he had distributed ₹2000 rupees to the people at the ration shop. He began assaulting Kannaiya after telling him that only DMK leaders could distribute COVID relief material.
The injured Kannaiya was admitted to the Kamuthi government hospital for treatment. Following a complaint lodged by Kannaiya at the Peraiyur police station, Police filed a case against DMK executive Ayyanar for preventing a civil servant from working and threatening to kill him.
(with inputs from Dinamani)
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