Case filed against MLAs for manhandling government employee

A case has been registered against four DMK, Congress MLAs for manhandling government employees and damaging public property.

Congress MLAs J G Prince (Colachel), Rajesh Kumar (Killiyoor) and S Vijayadharani (Vilavancode) and DMK MLAs T Mano Thangaraj (Padmanabhapuram), N Suresh Rajan (Nagercoil) and S Austin (Kanyakumari) barged into the office of the joint registrar (JR) of, cooperatives, at the Kanyakumari district collectorate and picked an argument with him for not standing up in front of them.

Video of the MLAs shouting at the registrar went viral on social media. Based on a complaint lodged by the joint registrar, the Nesamony Nagar police registered a case against MLAs Prince, Suresh Rajan, Mano Thangaraj and Rajesh Kumar and others.

Tamil Nadu government employees association members staged a protest against the MLAs for their act.