Chennai, Oct. 27 -- On a day of fast paced developments, senior DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi was arrested in the Rs 100 crore private school fraud case on Monday evening after the Madras High Court nixed his advance bail plea in the morning and eventually remanded in judicial custody till November six early this morning.
He was the first ex-DMK Minister to be arrested in a corruption case after the TVK government headed by Chief Minister Vijay assumed office in May and started digging into various corrupt activities involving former Ministers during the previous DMK regime.
Hours after his anticipatory bail plea was dismissed in the morning, the Chennai Crime Branch (CCB) police arrest...