trichy a special team of police arrested two men on thursday night for recording and spreading an abusive audio about a particular community and spreading it through whatsapp which led to violence at ponnamaravathi in pudukkottai district and in some parts of maduraithe accused belonged to the same community in question they admitted to have created and spread the audio to provoke their community people to regain their pridethe police team led by additional deputy superintendents of police elango and anbalagan arrested g selvakumar 34 a resident of manjavayal near pattukkottai in thanjavur district who works in singapore police arrested selvakumar when he landed at chennai international airport on thursday night the police also arrested his accomplice c vasanth 30 of pattukottai for inciting him to create the audio about their own communityselvakumar at the behest of vasanth made two of his friends to speak ill of the community and recorded it on phone in westlite area in singapore on april 14 selvakumar shared the audio with vasanth on april 17 he posted it on instant messaging apps the audio went viral and triggered violence in ponnamaravathi and surrounding areas from the night on april 18thousands of people from the community protested and vandalised the government and private vehicles on april 19 tension prevailed for two more days before it spread to some parts of madurai where the community people protested by blocking roadsinspector general of police central zone v varadharaju said that the police teams were on the lookout for two persons speaking in the audio clip and one more person in thanjavur who was instrumental in spreading the audio locally