Chennai-based journalist Sandhya Ravishankar has alleged intimidation by unidentified persons and has put out CCTV footage from the camera outside her house on Thursday. Sandhya Ravishankar is an independent journalist known for her exposes on the sand mafia in Tamil Nadu.

In a series of tweets on Friday morning, she said that on Thursday morning she found that the petrol tube in her bike was cut, when she went to start her bike. She then went on to watch CCTV footage taken from the camera fitted in her house, overseeing the parked vehicles outside the house.

In the first video clip attached in the thread, it can been seen that two men stop their bike in front of her house at 11.43 pm on Wednesday. One of the men, gets down with a bottle in his hand, while the rider sitting on the bike with his helmet on his head tears a cloth and gives it to the man who got down. They are then seen doing something with the bottle and the cloth. The rider too then gets down from the bike, his helmet intact, and walks towards Sandhya’s bike. What he does after that is not visible in the clip since a wall blocks the CCTV’s. After a few seconds both the men ride away.