Former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister M P Swaminathan was on Monday arrested at Tirupur near Coimbatore in connection with a land grabbing case, police said.
The former highways minister was arrested from his residence, the police said.
Swaminathan, who is the party's Tirupur district secretary, was arrested on a complaint of land grabbing from a man from Moovanoor town near Tirupur, they said.
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