The city police registered a case against municipal administration minister and Thondamuthur AIADMK candidate S P Velumani and three others for violating the model code of conduct and unlawful assembly.
The Selvapuram (law & order) police said the four, along with around 200 AIADMK cadres, had assembled at the party office on Perur main road at Selvapuram on Monday in violation of the poll code.
Based on the complaint lodged by P Mahesh, chief officer, static surveillance team, Thondamuthur assembly constituency, police booked Velumani, Veeramani, party’s youth wing secretary at Selvapuram, Vijayakumar, party’s Selvapuram area secretary and Kattudurai, party functionary, under sections 143 (punishment for unlawful assembly) and 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 126 (2) (prohibition of public meetings during period of forty-eight hours ending with hour fixed for conclusion of poll) of the Representation of People’s Act. Police have also registered a first information report against the four. TNN