Police conducted a patrol operation based on a secret tip-off received by Q Branch Inspector Vijay Anitha that beedi leaves were being smuggled to Sri Lanka from an area under the Thermal Nagar Police Station limits in Thoothukudi city subdivision of Thoothukudi district.
According to Thoothukudi police, the victim was a Dalit, and belonged to Ariyanayagapuram village near Srivaikuntam of Thoothukudi district. He was attacked by three youth belonging to the dominant caste of the nearby village.
Uttar Pradesh's BJP spokesperson Prashant Umrao Patel filed a petition in the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail after Thoothukudi police filed a case against him for spreading false information in a tweet on alleged attacks on migrant workers from Bihar in T
Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 28 (ANI): The Tamil Nadu government on Monday ordered the closure of Sterlite plant following the death of 13 people in police firing during the anti-Sterlite protests in Thoothukudi.