madurai police have arrested three people including a dmk functionary on tuesday in connection with the death certificates issued in the names of state cooperatives minister sellur k raju and madurai south mla r annadurai the three are likely to be sent to remand on wednesday police identified the three as jeevan ramesh district youth wing deputy organiser of dmk padmanabhan from karimedu a tout allegedly functioning in the corporation office and giri a computer operator employed by the corporation on a contract basis while ramesh was cited as the person who applied for the death certificates providing wrong information padamanabhan and giri were accused of providing them they have been booked for data tampering and forgery under section 466 of the ipc besides information technology act police are also likely to charge them for cheating and bribing jeevan had allegedly paid a bribe of rs 13000 to get the death certificates a police officer said the arrested are expected to bring the curtains down on the episode that embarrassed the civic body authorities who were caught off guard when death certificates of much alive politicos surfaced while sellur k raju and annadurai had to undergo a harrowing experience of seeing their own death certificates a stunned mayor v v rajan chellappa alleged that it was a conspiracy of miscreants to defame the civic body however ramesh had told the police during interrogation that he had applied for the death certificates of the two political leaders to expose corrupt practices in the corporation whatever the motive the means to obtain the death certificates were wrong he had provided forged documents to substantiate that the minister and mla were dead besides he had bribed the corporation staff which was a serious offence said a police officer ramesh had approached padmanabhan who was acting as a tout facilitating public to get death and certificates in the corporation padamanaban in turn took the help of giri who allegedly lifted the signatures of corporation officials and issued the certificate by hacking the computers police said police said that they zeroed in on the accused based on inquiries and data of people who accessed the computers in the section that issued birth and death certificates