PUDUKOTTAI: The families of three of the 28 men arrested for rioting and violence in Singapore have petitioned chief minister J Jayalalithaa to take steps to get them back to India.
The families of Velmurugan, 25, Saravanan, 31, and Govindarajan, 30, hailing from Alangudi village, Pudukottai district, arrived in Chennai on Wednesday to meet Singapore consulate officials. They sent a letter to Pudukottai collector C Manoharan on Monday, requesting him to intervene with the state government and urge it to get the men released. Full story
