Balaji Murugadoss to CM Vijay after narcotics search: 'Who complained?'

Fifteen narcotics officers searched Balaji Murugadoss’s home on Sunday night and, by his account, found “3 cats and one dog.” On Monday the Bigg Boss Tamil 4 runner-up posted a video of the search and tagged Chief Minister Vijay with one question: who made the complaint?

“I just want to know who gave the complaint and for what! I asked them n number of times they didn’t disclose. I’m up for blood test. But shame on ur police department!” he wrote on X.

The team was from the Anti-Narcotics Task Force, and Balaji says they came without a search warrant. He let them in anyway, he said, because he had nothing to hide. The video shows how that went. When an officer told him that if he recorded, they would record too, he replied, “Please record. Sir, I am a clean person.” Asked why they were there, the officers said only that they had “got calls.” When one of them told him he was a famous figure and they needed his co-operation, he pointed out that he was the one who had invited them inside. Then he offered them his blood for a test.

His anger is aimed at the process, not the search itself. He co-operated, nothing was found, and he still does not know who accused him or of what. He has asked the police for an explanation. Neither the department nor the Chief Minister’s office has responded publicly.

The timing makes it awkward for Vijay’s government. Balaji tagged @actorvijay, the account Vijay used through his film career, and Vijay’s first months in office have brought plenty of warm messages from the film industry. A public complaint about his police from a well-known TV face is a different kind of message.

Balaji came to prominence on Kamal Haasan’s Bigg Boss Tamil 4, where he finished as first runner-up, then won the first season of Bigg Boss Ultimate. He is currently cooking on Celebrity MasterChef Tamil, so the show now has a contestant whose week began with a home search.