Chennai: Youtuber and Naam Tamizhar functionary ‘Saattai’ Duraimurugan, who came out on bail in a defamation case recently, has been arrested again, this time for spreading rumours on protest by Foxconn women staff.
Sources said he was arrested in Tiruchi by a team of police after a fresh case was filed.
Thousands of women employees of Foxconn Technology firm, which assembles and manufactures smart phone components, staged a marathon road roko agiation on the busy Chennai-Bengaluru National highway after reports of two of their staffs had died due to food poisoning went viral in theĀ social media.
As the reports went viral, women employees, who were staying in various dormitories in and around Sriperumbudur where the facility of the Taiwan-based firm was located, resorted to a flash protest at Sunguvarchathiram last night, affecting traffic on the highway, resulting in pile up vehicles to a distance of about five to six kms.
As they continued with their protests despite the Collector promising action against the cook for not providing quality food, Rural Industries Minister T M Anbarasan and Labour Minister C V Ganesan held marathon talks following which they called off their nearly 13-hour long agitation.