Chennai, July 4 (IANS) A senior executive of Sun TV, W. Hans Raj Saxena, was arrested here Sunday in a cheating case.
Police said Saxena, who was coming from Hyderabad by an evening Air India flight, was arrested on his arrival by the Central Crime Branch wing of the city police.
He was taken to Adyar police station for questioning and was later taken to the magistrate who remanded him to custody.
The arrest follows a complaint by filmmaker T.S. Selvaraj alleging that Saxena cheated him of Rs.9 million on payment of money for distribution of the movie ‘Theeradha vilayattu Pillai’.
Saxena was also in the news recently when the owners of a three-star hotel in the city alleged that he was the brain behind an attack on the hotel.
The flagship channel of the Chennai-based Sun Network, Sun TV is owned by Kalanithi Maran, brother of DMK leader and union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran.
