The Tiruchi City Police arrested a Bharatiya Janata Party functionary for sharing defamatory posts about DMK deputy general secretary and Lok Sabha member K. Kanimozhi in a WhatsApp group on Friday.
Police sources identified the arrested person as Srinivasan alias Auto Srini, a native of Sathya Nagar in Woraiyur and a member of the BJP’s Tiruchi district executive committee. According to the police, he shared posts defaming Ms. Kanimozhi in a WhatsApp group. Based on a complaint from Hariharan, a DMK lawyer, the Srirangam police arrested Srinivasan on Friday.