An incident where the DMK threatened to chop the hands off of a videographer from a private news channel who had filmed the DMK Cuddalore candidate Iyappan’s payment default has caused quite a stir. The videographer has lodged a complaint with the police saying that his life was in danger because of the DMK.
In Cuddalore on Wednesday, DMK candidate Iyappan failed to pay the organisers during an election campaign. Ilayaraja, a videographer from Polimer TV, who was there at the time, tried to film the incident. Upon noticing that he was being filmed, Iyyapan had gone on to attack Ilayaraja and started screaming at him indiscriminately since he was filming them. Iyyappan went on to take him hostage and kept him at the house of a DMK official in Navneet Nagar.
The DMK had also allegedly threatened to destroy the video. Ilayaraja has now complained to the District Deputy Superintendent of Cuddalore after being subjected to abuse by the DMK. The complaint alleges that DMK candidate Iyappan and 15 of his supporters threatened to “take away the hand that took the video”. The police are investigating this matter and have filed an FIR against the members involved.
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