Nine persons were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly selling colour television sets distributed to poor families under a government scheme.
They were arrested on charges of extortion and threatening the beneficiaries.
The police seized 18 TV sets and impounded an autorickshaw and a four-wheeler that were allegedly used for selling the TV sets.
The arrests were made following media reports that free TVs were being bought and sold in the market by middlemen.
Speaking to reporters, Police Commissioner G. Nanchil Kumaran said the police raided a few locations and seized the TV sets from a shop on Ritchie Street and from two houses in Cherian Nagar and Ashok Nagar in New Washermenpet.
He said the police would closely watch people who indulged in threatening or wooing the beneficiaries to part with the television sets. The names of the accused are S. Selvi, B. Selvam, A. Askar Ali, John Basha and T.Selvaraj of New Washermenpet and P.Muralidharan, auto driver Gopalakrishnan, E. Vasu and K. Murugan of Egmore.
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