One person named Vinodh has been arrested by the police on the basis of CCTV footage. As per reports, he has confessed that the attack was in retaliation to BJP's stand on the NEET issue.
Sabitha, the then Assistant Director of Minerals, has been accused of permitting the sand robbery. Her husband Mohammad Sameer was arrested in Chennai on January 23 in connection with the scam.
The Madras HC decision to hand over M Lavanya suicide case to CBI came in the wake of her father's petition claiming that they had lost faith in Tamil Nadu police's investigation.