A section of the group later started pelting stones while another group set the shop on fire.
Chennai: City police on Monday evening detained as many as 60 VCK activists including Vanni Arasu, deputy general secretary of the party, for allegedly setting a Tasmac liquor shop on fire on Kishkintha Salai in Annai Anjugam Nagar near Tambaram.
Peerkanakaranai police said that VCK team, which included 10 women, reached the newly opened shop with media contingent at around 5 pm and asked the staff at the shop to come out.
A section of the group later started pelting stones while another group set the shop on fire. Police said that the particular shop was functioning till recently at a building 20 metre away from the present building.
Tasmac decided to change the location after it was found to be with in 500 metres from the highway. “It was earlier located at a spot which was 490 metres away from highway. So they shifted the shop 20 meters away from first spot recently to make it more than 500 metres away from highway” the police said.
The new shop has been completely damaged by the VCK cadres on Monday evening following which the police detained 60 of them.
In another incident of protest against two Tasmac shops in Tiruporur member of public ransacked a bar attached to one of the shop on Monday.
