leader and former deputy chief minister M.K.Stalin was briefly detained on Saturday at Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu during a protest. His detention came on the day two other DMK leaders, including a former minister, were arrested on charges of seizing land, police said.
Tiruvarur is located near Thanjavur, the rice granary of the state around 325 km from here.
Stalin, on a tour of that region, was held when he and other party leaders protested the arrest of party functionary Poondi Kalaivannan in connection with a case.
According to police, a case was registered against Kalaivannan for allegedly preventing students from attending school Friday and also for being responsible for a bus accident the same day near Tiruvarur in which a student lost his life.
When police went to arrest Kalaivannan, the DMK men led by Stalin protested and were arrested.
Stalin was later set free.
Earlier Saturady, two DMK leaders, including a former minister, were arrested on charges of seizing land.
Former minister and senior leader Veerapandi S. Arumugam was arrested in Salem, 350 km from here, where he had gone to mark his attendance as he was out on bail since July 27 in another land grabbing case, a police officer told IANS.
Arumugam was arrested on the basis of a new land grab complaint, the officer said.
A local court remanded Arumugam in judicial custody for 15 days and he was lodged in Coimbatore central prison.
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