School teacher arrested with ganja

A Selvaraj / TNN / Jun 18, 2013, 14:30 IST

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CHENNAI: Police have arrested a school teacher for smuggling ganja in Dindigul on Tuesday. Police seized at least 220kg of ganja from his house. The school teacher, Srinivasan, 42, Kottaiyur Chinnaiyan Patti village, Natham near Dindigul had concealed ganja in a few gunny bags inside his fields behind his house. Srinivasan joined the government higher secondary school in Natham as a physical education teacher in 2011 through the teachers recruitment board (TRB). Srinivasan was involved in a ganja smuggling case in 2010 and police seized at least 30kg of ganja from his residence. As the TRB officials didn't verify his background with the local police, he managed to get the posting.Srinivasan has two wives, Sukumari and Vasuki. Sukumari has five ganja smuggling cases pending against her.

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About the AuthorA Selvaraj

Selvaraj Arunachalam, widely known as Crime Selvaraj, is a veteran journalist with over 31 years of experience in crime reporting across leading Tamil and English newspapers. He has covered historic events, including the deaths of former Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi, the IPL betting scam, and the Kanchi Seer Sankararaman murder case. A familiar face in the digital space, he has given more than 500 interviews across 30 YouTube channels, with millions of views on social media. He has also featured in international documentaries on Netflix and Bloomberg, speaking on high-profile cases such as idol smuggler Subhash Kapoor and conman Sukesh Chandrasekar. Beyond journalism, he has acted in three films including the Tamil movie DNA, trained over 200 budding journalists, directed short films, and authored the English crime-poetry collection Chilled Love. His contributions have earned him the TOI Scribe Award and the Humanitarian Award from former Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan.

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