Events surrounding the dramatic arrest of former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in June 2001 have come into focus again in the wake of observations by a Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) functionary about the whereabouts of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the time of the incident.

It was a fact that Mr. Stalin, then Chennai Mayor, was not in the city when a team of police officials went to the Oliver Road residence of his father during the intervening night of June 29 and 30 to arrest him in connection with alleged irregularities in the construction of 10 flyovers in Chennai, according to a perusal of materials available with The Hindu archives. Mr. Stalin, whom the police could not trace in the early hours of the day, said he had gone to Bangalore (now Bengaluru) to meet a relative, this n

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