A group of people in a car went to the petrol pump and got into an argument with the fuel station workers with regard to some payment issues, police said.
Avadi Police have registered an FIR against News Portal 'Opindia.com' for spreading false news and creating a sense of fear among migrant workers in Tamil Nadu.
Eight more workers of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) on Monday surrendered before the police in a case of barging into the office of Asianet News, the police said.
Stepping up the investigation into the rumours of the alleged 'attack' on the Bihar migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu, the police of both states have swung into action with the Bihar Police issuing the preservation notice to social media platforms while the Tamil Nadu Police is conducting the
The police official said that the videos which were circulated on social media regarding the alleged 'attacks' were fake and most of them did not even take place in Tamil Nadu.
Amid the row over alleged attacks on the state's migrant workers from Bihar, Tamil Nadu's minister for Labour Welfare and Skill Development, CV Ganesan, on Monday said the DMK government was in the process of conducting a census of its migrant workforce.
Launching a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party over 'rumoured attacks' on migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha on Sunday said that this was done through a manufactured agenda and that this fake news factory should be shut.
Migrant labourers are leaving Tamil Nadu because of the Holi festival and also the rumours of attacks on migrant labourers, said S Vineeth, Trippur District Collector on Sunday.
In a bid to allay the fear of migrant labourers, working in Tamil Nadu, triggered after several "fake" videos of attacks on them surfaced on social media, the State Governor RN Ravi on Sunday said that North Indian workers need not panic as the State government is committed to providing them
IAS Jagannathan said, "This false propaganda is being carried out to disrupt the relationship between the two states without citing the intelligence agency."
Officials of Tamil Nadu Police have booked four persons, including journalists and a Bharatiya Janata Party leader in connection with the spreading of "false" news over an attack on Bihar-based migrant labourers, creating statewide panic.