In Tamil Nadu, opposition leader Udhayanidhi Stalin has been released on Police station bail after interrogation at the Chengipatti Police Station after being arrested in Chennai on Tuesday morning on complaints of indecent remarks in his speech. The complaint was filed at Thanjavur East police Station. He was booked under nine sections of which two were criminal charges. According to the directive of the Madras High Court he has been freed after completion of inquiry. His release followed an order from the Madras High Court directing the police to let him go after completing the inquiry on Tuesday itself. Udhayanidhi Stalin was questioned for about one-and-a-half hours at the Sengipatti Police Station in Thanjavur district in the presence of Superintendent of Police Sundaravathanam before being released on station bail. He had spent nearly eight hours in police custody by the time the questioning began.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin arrived in Chennai by flight from Tiruchirappalli after being released on police bail.
— IANS (@ians_india) August 4, 2026
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The DMK President and former Chief Minister M.K. Stalin strongly condemned the police action, describing the arrest as an attempt by the ruling TVK government to divert attention from what he termed its failures. Stalin alleged that the government had targeted the Leader of the Opposition to prevent him from attending the state Assembly’s Budget session beginning on Wednesday. The arrest triggered protests by DMK cadres at several places, with supporters gathering outside police stations and other locations as Udhayanidhi Stalin was taken from Chennai to Thanjavur for questioning.
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