Tamil YouTuber 'Savukku' Shankar arrested for alleged 'defamatory remarks against police'

Tamil YouTuber 'Savukku' Shankar arrested for 'defamatory remarks against police'

Tamil YouTuber 'Savukku' Shankar was arrested by the Coimbatore police allegedly for making defamatory remarks against women police officials, police here said on Saturday.

A team from the Coimbatore City Cybercrime wing arrested Shankar from Theni early today morning and brought him to the city, police said. Enroute, the police vehicle in which Shankar was being brought met with an accident near Dharapuram in Tiruppur district when a car collided head-on with the police van, they added.

Besides Shankar, two police constables suffered minor injuries in the accident and they were treated as outpatients at the Dharapuram Government Hospital, police said.

''Savukku Shankar has been arrested today for offences committed under sections 294 (b), 509 and 353 IPC read with section 4 of Tamil Nadu prohibition of harassment of Women Act and section 67 of Information Technology Act, 2000,'' Coimbatore City Police said in a post on X.

The arrest was made based on a complaint by a Sub-Inspector of Police of Coimbatore City for allegedly making objectionable comments against women cops in a recent interview to a youtube channel.

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