Ramaswami: New Delhi: In a controversial move, the Coimbatore police have arrested the founder of SimpliCity, a news portal, for two reports that highlighted shortcomings faced by government healthcare professionals and alleged corruption by some employees of the public distribution system (PDS). Andrew Sam Raja Pandian was charged under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Epidemic Diseases Act after a complaint was filed by M. Sundararajan, an assistant commissioner of the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation. The complainant claims that the reports could ‘provoke’ healthcare professionals and PDS employees against the government and “derail efforts to fight the coronavirus”.