Palanisamy confidant, three others arrested

COIMBATORE: Continuing its crackdown on land grabbers, the police here on Friday arrested four DMK members, including two close confidantes of former minister Pongalur N Palanisamy.
According to the FIR, the accused had sold a 1.5acre land near Perur, belonging to one Gunasekaran, to a real estate firm by forging documents, three years ago.According to police sources, Gunasekaran, hailing from Perumanallur village in Tirupur district, had mortgaged his land to Venugopal, a land broker in 1994, and signed an agreement which stated that the lender would take ownership of the land in case Gunasekaran failed to repay the borrowed sum.