These incidents had created a furor and a challenge to the government in curbing the spread as well as monitoring the influx of people from other regions.
The volunteers held the awareness campaigns and they talked with the members of the households and explained to them about the measures and precautions to tackle the viral infection.
The news that the minister has tested positive for the virus has broken out moments after he took part in the meeting with Union Minister of Power Raj Kumar Singh that held in the Chief Secretariat on Wednesday.
The revelation has come as the sequel of the fever camps installed and conducted by the civic body across the city to check and carry out testings for the patients.
The skeletal remains of the first child were found on June 19 and it measured 75 centimeters while the second one that was exhumed on Tuesday measured 95 centimeters in length.
According to the Tamil Nadu's Health Department, the state has added over 80,000 cases in June month as the state's tally stood at 22,333 on May 31st and now, the tally stands at 1,02,721 cases.
Inspector General of CB-CID Shankar said that the four police officers have been booked under section 302- murder, 342- punishment for wrongful confinement, and 201 - causing disappearance of evidence under the Indian Penal code.
Duraisamy was one of the DMK party's deputy general secretaries and he had previously served as an MP and as Deputy Speaker of Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly.
India has spelled the practice of manual scavenging as illegal under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines Prohibition Act 1993.
The family members of the victims had also welcomed the arrests and thanked people for voicing for justice. The family expressed their hope that the accused will be met with the maximum punishments.
KP Anbalagan is the first minister in Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami's cabinet to test positive for the virus and he was confirmed to have contracted to the virus on June 30.
Based on the autopsy report, it can be ascertained whether the accused must be booked under the sections of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act.
Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal is Chennai's 107th Police Commissioner and recently, he was deputed as a nodal officer in Chennai's North Zone to work with the Chennai Corporation in curbing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
The CBCID has been probing the case as per the directive of the High court despite the Tamil Nadu government has transferred the case to the CBI on Monday.
The survey was taken by 3,136 respondents of which 46.6% belong to Chennai, 16.9% from the rest of districts from Tamil Nadu, and 36.5% from the Indian states.
The case has been attaining vital developments with back to back evidence which exhumed shocking revelations of how police brutally tortured and beaten the father and son duo.
The Crime Branch - Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) has taken over the probe on Tuesday with accord to the directive of the Madras High Court Madurai Bench.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah took to Twitter and said he has anguished to learn about the loss of lives due to the blast at Neyveli power plant in Tamil Nadu.
Rajinikanth took to Twitter and released his statement, which has come nearly ten days after the death of Jayaraj and Bennicks, who died under police custody.
