The Cyber Cell of the Chennai City Police nabbed two more persons on the charge of spreading false information on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's health through social media.

Police named S. Balasundaram(48), an employee of a private firm in Pammal and T. Maniselvam (28), a bank staff in Ottapidaram, Thoothukudi district, as accused.

Some posts appeared on social media, spreading false and malicious rumours about Jayalalithaa's health in the past few days.

In this regard, nearly 50 complaints were received by the Greater Chennai Police and cases were registered and taken up for investigation.

The city police arrested K. Sathish Kumar of Thiruchengodu and P. Madasamy of Madurai on Monday on similar charge.

Nandini