Apart from Karunanidhi, other members of the DMK first family - like MK Stalin, his sister and his mother - and hundreds of DMK supporters were also present at the airport to welcome Kanimozhi.
Kanimozhi is accused of allowing a TV channel co-owned by her to serve as the landing place for a 214-crore kickback that was paid to her partyman, A Raja, when he was Telecom Minister.