'Kaduvetti' Guru detained under NSA

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Press Trust of India Chennai
Last Updated : May 10 2013 | 7:40 PM IST
Senior PMK leader and MLA in Tamil Nadu Assembly 'Kaduvetti' J Guru alias Gurunathan, already under arrest on charges of hate speech, was today detained under National Security Act, sources said.
Guru was issued a detention order this afternoon by police after Kancheepuram Collector passed an order to this effect, they said.
Guru, PMK's floor leader in the Assembly, is the third functionary of the party to be detained under NSA in the last one week.
In 2012, police registered cases under IPC sections 143 (unlawful assembly) and 147 (rioting) against him for an inflammatory speech he allegedly made at Thazhambur in Kancheepuram district.
Two more cases were registered against him for his speech at the Chithirai festival at Mamallapuram.
He was arrested on May 3 and remanded to judicial custody. Yesterday police had taken Guru into their custody for two days for questioning and it ended today.
Parts of northern Tamil Nadu has been witnessing protests since last week following the arrest of Ramadoss and his son and former Union Health Minister Anbumani in connection with violence in Marakkanam in Kancheepuram district last month.
While Anbumani was released from jail yesterday after a court granted him bail, Ramadoss continued to remain in judicial custody in Tiruchirapalli prison.
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First Published: May 10 2013 | 7:40 PM IST

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