Overview
- T. Yuvaraj, arrested Tuesday, was a contract CCTV technical head at Anna University who posted a Facebook photo on April 23 showing the leaked film on his laptop with surveillance screens behind him.
- A Greater Chennai Corporation IT official’s complaint led police to book IT-related offences and question how he got the file and whether he watched the entire movie.
- Investigators say he viewed the copy during a night shift before EVMs were locked in the strong room on April 23, at a site safeguarding machines from five Chennai Assembly constituencies under round-the-clock CCTV.
- Tamil Nadu Cyber Crime teams are tracing the leak network after the HD print surfaced on April 9, with at least nine arrests so far, including a freelance editor treated as the main accused and industry discipline against the film’s editor.
- Counting is set for May 4 and the film remains uncertified by the censor board, so any release date is unresolved as producers warn that downloading or sharing leaked clips is a criminal offence.