Indiya Jananayaka Katchi

The chairman of business conglomerate SRM Group and chief of the Tamil Nadu's Indiya Jananayaka Katchi (IJK) party, TR Pachamuthu, has been sent to judicial custody till September 9 after being arrested on Friday in a cheating case.

Reflecting the growing presence of politicians in the field of private higher education in Tamil Nadu, the April 24 Lok Sabha elections fray in the state features at least a dozen candidates who head or have stake in engineering and medical colleges.

The chairman of business conglomerate SRM Group and chief of the Tamil Nadu's Indiya Jananayaka Katchi (IJK) party, TR Pachamuthu, has been sent to judicial custody till September 9 after being arrested on Friday in a cheating case.

Reflecting the growing presence of politicians in the field of private higher education in Tamil Nadu, the April 24 Lok Sabha elections fray in the state features at least a dozen candidates who head or have stake in engineering and medical colleges.