EPS booked for assaulting man at airport

“Rajeshwaran began to yell at EPS while simultaneously recording a Facebook Live, calling him a betrayer of Sasikala. Soon, his cellphone was grabbed by EPS’s security,” a police official said.

Police identified the man as Rajeshwaran, 42, a supporter of V K Sasikala, who was expelled from the party by Palaniswami months after former CM and AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa's death in 2016. (Express Photo)

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Police on Sunday booked former Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and five others for allegedly assaulting a man at Madurai airport.

Police identified the man as Rajeshwaran, 42, a supporter of V K Sasikala, who was expelled from the party by Palaniswami months after former CM and AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa’s death in 2016. Sasikala’s nephew and EPS’s rival, T T V Dhinakaran, later launched the AMMK.

Police said the incident occurred Saturday as EPS was on his way to attend a party meeting in Sivaganga district. They said after the flight landed, Rajeshwaran, an AMMK worker, was on the same shuttle bus that EPS took towards the tarmac.

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“Rajeshwaran began to yell at EPS while simultaneously recording a Facebook Live, calling him a betrayer of Sasikala. Soon, his cellphone was grabbed by EPS’s security,” a police official said.

The official said Rajeshwaran was again manhandled outside the terminal by AIADMK supporters. He said Rajeshwaran was detained and that he later filed a complaint at the Avaniyapuram police station.

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