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TRICHY: An IT wing functionary of the DMK was arrested on Wednesday for posting offensive content on social media about chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and transport minister M R Vijayabhaskar Police sources said R Loganathan, the party’s IT wing coordinator from Aravakurichi constituency, shared a series of videos showing morphed faces of the CM and the transport minister. At the same time, we demand that action be initiated against the AIADMK functionaries for their objectionable remarks,” Rajendran said.Cases have been booked against Loganathan under Section 203, 504, 294 (b) and 506(i) for giving false information, intentional insult, singing, reciting or uttering any obscene song in any public place. One of the pictures allegedly linked the chief minister to the murder-robbery at Jayalalithaa’s mountain retreat at Kodanad in the Nilgiris.A release from police said the posts were intended to insult the CM and the minister, besides being misleading and defamatory in nature.On a complaint filed by Madhusudhan, AIADMK’s Karur district deputy secretary of the IT wing, Loganathan was booked under four sections of the IPC.Karur district superintendent of police T K Rajasekaran has warned that strict action would be initiated against those spreading such false information on social media platforms.DMK’s Karur district secretary Nanniyur Rajendran told TOI that the posts were in reply to certain objectionable posts made on Facebook by AIADMK IT wing president Pasupathy Senthil.“We will take the legal way to counter the arrest of Loganathan by police..