Senior DMK leader and former higher education minister K Ponmudi was today arrested in a land grabbing case.
He was arrested from his native Villupuram, 160 km from here, police said.
He is the fourth former minister after Veerapandi S Arumugam (Salem), K N Nehru (Tiruchirappalli) and N K K P Raja (Erode) to be arrested on land grabbing charges.