Chennai: Barring a few incidents, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) sponsored bandh on September 26 to protest September 24 terrorist strike on the Swaminarayan temple in Gandhinagar in Gujarat did not have any impact in Tamil Nadu.

A report said that tension prevailed in the hosiery town of Tirupur as the bandh turned violent and three persons sustained cut injuries inflicted by sharp-edged weapons.

Police said that trouble broke out after pro-bandh agitators were chased away by people of a particular community, when they tried to force a shopkeeper to down shutters.

Two brandy shops, belonging to a particular community, were torched, police said.

In all 22 persons were arrested in Coimbatore and six in Pollachi, when they attempted to resort to 'rail roko'.

At Chennai, ABVP volunteers burnt an effigy of Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf, even as Hindu Munnani volunteers staged demonstrations in several parts of the city and raised anti-Pakistan slogans.

According to a Madurai report, 69 Hindu Munnani and VHP activists, including a woman, were taken into custody while attempting to block road traffic at three different places.

Some miscreants pelted stones at a bus near the Periyar bus-stand and fled, police said.

Two government vehicles were damaged in stone throwing incidents in the neighbouring union territory of Pondicherry.

The bandh had no impact there, a Pondicherry report said. PTI