Chennai: A petrol bomb was hurled at a car belonging to a DMK legal wing functionary in Pushpa Nagar, Nungambakkam, early on Monday, damaging the car and a two-wheeler parked nearby. Police, on being alerted about the fire, along with forensic experts found that a beer bottle filled with petrol had been set alight and thrown at the vehicles.The damaged car belonged to P Venkatesan, area organiser of DMK legal wing. The two-wheeler belonged to K Kamesh Kannan.Venkatesan told reporters that he rushed to the spot and found the remnants of the petrol-filled bottle. He said he had no personal enmity with anyone and urged police to identify those responsible. He added that nothing like this had happened in the locality in the past five years.Police have registered a case and secured CCTV footage from the area to identify the suspects and motive.
