The DMK high command on Tuesday issued a notice to its Tirunelveli Lok Sabha member S. Gnanathiraviam against whom a case was registered on Monday.
The police had registered a case against Mr. Gnanathiraviam and 20 others in connection with an alleged assault on Godfrey Noble, a self-styled bishop of the Jesus Saves Ministry of Ittaeri near Palayamkottai. This followed a dispute in the faction-ridden Tirunelveli CSI Diocese. In a notice, the party’s general secretary, Duraimurugan, said there were complaints that the MP had brought disrepute to the party and to its development. “Mr. Gnanathiraviam has to appear before the party’s high command within seven days of receipt of the notice and give his explanation or send it by post. Action will be taken against him if he fails to do so,” Mr. Duraimurugan said in the notice.
