Two persons arrested for flying kites using banned manja in Tiruvottiyur

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The Tiruvottiyur police person arrested 2 persons for flying kites utilizing the Chinese manja, which has been banned owed to its crisp quality that causes heavy cuts and, successful galore cases, fatalities to roadworthy users and birds.

Greater Chennai City Police Commissioner A. Arun had issued lasting orders banning the manufacture and merchantability of kites with manja thread, arsenic good arsenic the flying of kites utilizing the thread, wrong the limits of Chennai city.

Police teams, led by inspectors, person been monitoring their respective jurisdictions and taking enactment against those manufacturing, selling, oregon utilizing manja for kite-flying. In continuation of this enforcement and based connected circumstantial information, a constabulary squad conducted surveillance connected Sunday (February 22) adjacent Gandhi Nagar Main Road successful Tiruvottiyur. They apprehended 2 persons who were flying kites utilizing the banned thread and seized the kites.

The accused — Venkatesan, 25, and Arun, 30, some residents of Tiruvottiyur — were arrested. The constabulary seized 10 kites and 4 spools containing manja thread from them. During inquiry, it was revealed that the accused had purchased the kites and manja thread online from a seller from different State.

Published - February 23, 2026 04:49 p.m. IST

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