Chennai, Feb 18 (IANS) The husband of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's former confidante Sasikala was arrested here Saturday on a land grab charge here, police said.

According to police, M. Natarajan was arrested here on a complaint lodged by Ramalingam of Thanjavur, 325 km from Chennai. A police team from Thanjavur arrested Natarajan and took him there.

As per the complaint, some men -- allegedly at the instigation of Natarajan -- occupied land measuring around 10,000 sq ft in Thanjavur belonging to Ramalingam and threatened him when he had asked them to vacate the land.

Early this month, police had arrested Divakaran, the brother of Sasikala, for allegedly demolishing a house of Kasturi in Tiruvarur. Police has also arrested Ravanan, another relative of Sasikala, in a cheating case.

In a dramatic move last December, Jayalalithaa had thrown Sasikala out of her house. Jayalalithaa also thrown out Sasikala and others close to her from the AIADMK.

Jayalalithaa has maintained silence about the reason for her decision.