chennai police on friday apprehended three residents of rajanagaram village near ramakrishnaraju pet in tiruttani for creating a ruckus and detaining a woman tahsildar who went to hand over 100 houses to families from the scheduled caste community in the area the state government had allotted the houses to the sc families in 1997 a group of residents of the village had since been preventing the families from taking possession of the houses allotted to them the tahsilder went to the area after the issue was taken to the human rights commission the rk pet police apprehended kavikannan vinayagam and jayaraman meanwhile the villagers protested demanding the release of villagers the infuriated protesters chopped branches of trees and blocked a road connecting the sholinghurpallipattu state highway the agitators also hurled stones at police personnel who tried to negotiate with them