Union Minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi has surrendered before a Madurai court.   The Madras high court on Monday quashed a non-bailable arrest warrant against Durai Dayanidhi and granted him anticipatory bail in the alleged multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam.  

Dayanidhi and nine others are facing charges that firms owned by them had mined sand and granite without permission. Cases had been registered under various IPC sections including 120(b) (criminal conspiracy), 447 (criminal trespass) and 420 (cheating) against them.

Government had cracked down on several firms after former Madurai Collector U Sahayam in a report, estimated the losses incurred from illegal granite mining at around Rs 16,000 crore. Police had alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Dayanidhi and other accused from leaving the country. The companies' accounts had already been frozen.