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Trichy: A functionary of the DMK in Karur who handles the party’s information technology wing landed in jail on Wednesday for his social media posts insulting chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and transport minister M R Vijayabhaskar. Action had been taken on the complaint filed by Madhusudhan, AIADMK’s Karur district deputy secretary of the IT wing. One of the pictures on his facebook page with the morphed face of Palaniswami was quite offensive, according to the police. Cases have been filed against Loganathan under sections 203, 504, 294 (b) and 506 (i) for giving false information, intentional insult, singing, reciting or uttering any obscene song in any public place. They said it showed the CM owning up the five murders relating to the robbery attempt at the estate belonging to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa.A release from the police said that his posts were intended to insult the minister and CM apart from being misleading and defamatory in nature..