chennai police on monday arrested two men who attacked and injured a constable when he tried to intervene in a quarrel in triplicane but no case was registered against a political party leader who allegedly barged into the police station in an attempt to rescue the arrested men a city court later sent the arrested k suryah 22 and 29yearold s balaji to jail in the wee hours of monday a police officer said two officers were cruising around the triplicane area on a bike when they spotted suryah a resident of wall tax road and balaji of sowcarpet involved in an altercation with a transsexual on ellis road the two rode there chased away the transsexual and had begun questioning the two men when one of them threw a punch at constable prabhu leaving him with an injury to the mouth subinspector maruthu who was at his side informed the control room and a patrol vehicle soon arrived at the spotwhile prabhu was taken to a government hospital from where he was discharged later the two suspects were driven to the triplicane police station as they were being questioned r lingesan a lawyer and state president of the beemrao republic party arrived he barged in and tried to free the detained men in the presence of several police personnel a senior officer saidmaruthu then picked up a quarrel with lingesan for his attempt right inside the police station the news soon spread via wireless to all night patrol officers a deputy commissioner of police an assistant commissioner of police and other senior officers rushed there and the triplicane police station was soon buzzing with activity sources said the senior officers after lenghty negotiations persuaded lingesan not to initiate any complaint against subinspector maruthulater maruthu who is said to have been involved in a few similar incidents in the past was pulled up for his action against the political party leader