Man wanted by Ariyalur police detained at Chennai airport

CHENNAI: A 42-year-old man, who was being searched by the Ariyalur police, was detained at the Chennai airport on Thursday night.

Immigration officials were checking passengers arriving from Kuala Lumpur on Thursday night.

When officials checked the documents of the passengers, it was found that Poomalai of Ariyalur was wanted by the Ariyalur Crime Branch police.

Soon the immigration officials detained Poomalai in the immigration cell and alerted the Ariyalur police.

During interrogation, officials learned that a case had been registered against Poomalai by the Crime Branch police and when the police were about to arrest him, he managed to flee abroad.

Later the police issued LOC at all the airports across the country and Poomalai was caught as soon as he returned to India on Thursday night.