pudukkottai a derogatory audio message about a particular community led to violence at ponnamaravathi in pudukkottai district of tamil nadu on friday with people from the community throwing stones at policemen damaging the government buses and police vehiclesprohibitory orders under section 144 of the crpc was imposed in ponnamaravathi taluk to prevent further escalation of tensiontension gripped poonamaravathi town and surrounding areas after more than 5000 men and women from the community converged in front of the local police station demanding arrest of miscreants who spread the audio clip against their community prior to that they damaged the vehicles parked on roadsidesthough superintendent of police sp s selvaraj intervened and eased the situation the protests became violent when the angry mob tried to gather near ponnamaravathi police station and threw stones at police vehicles and the policemen the incident left four police vehicles and two government buses damaged and two policemen injuredthe police resorted to lathicharge and brought the violence under control in the afternoonas news spread tension again surfaced irate people resorted to the blockade by felling trees on pudukkottaiponnamaravathi road traffic was affected on the road the issue is under control we are closely monitoring the action is on to arrest those indulging in violence inspector general of police ig central zone v varadharaju told toihe said that they were clueless about the people speaking in the audio messagedeputy inspector general of police trichy range r lalitha lakshmi was camping in the area