Chennai Police have arrested eight members of Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam in connection with the early-morning attempted attack on Thuglak magazine editor S Gurumurthy’s Mylapore residence. According to the Police, around nine members had approached the residence of Gurumurthy on two-wheelers, with the alleged intention of hurling a petrol bomb. It is that dog that alerted the security and made the miscreants attack impossible” Gurumurthy tweeted about the thwarted incident. He said the Tamil magazine was the only one to cover this event, adding that the founder Cho Ramaswamy had condemned this. “This brought a bad name to the ruling DMK who did not want the magazine to be circulated,” Rajinikanth said.

Source: dna January 27, 2020 15:22 UTC