About 100 men stormed and attacked the Checkers Hotel near Little Mount and ransacked its premises on Tuesday night besides handing out a life threat to the hotel’s executive director, Vinoj P. Selvam.

Mr. Selvam said that around 10.20 pm, an anonymous caller asked him to produce his friend Siddharth before them within 10 minutes at the hotel. “The caller said that if I failed to produce him in 10 minutes, I will be killed”, he said.

Selvam immediately alerted the police rushed to the hotel. But by then rowdies had landed there in around 25 autorickshaws and three Innova cars (two of them without number plates and one bearing the number TNO6A 0333). He claimed that they caused damages to the hotel to the tune of Rs 25 lakhs and took away Rs 3.6 lakhs from the hotel lobby.

Police sources say five auto drivers - Vaidvelu, Venkatesan, Arun, Ravi and Krishnamurthy - were arrested. Hotel deputy manager D. Chandrasekar lodged a complaint with the Guindy police station on the attack and by Wednesday evening,

Meanwhile Siddharth’s mother, whom the hoodlums were looking for, filed a complaint naming the CEO of a popular media house, alleging that some men had barged into her house and attacked her son on Tuesday night.

The men threatened to telecast nude pictures of Siddharth on their television channel Sowmithri. Trouble started on August 29 night after her son got into a spat with some persons over parking his vehicle at Neelangarai, where he had gone to drop a friend. Her son’s car was damaged after the men attacked him and he took refuge inside the friend’s house. Later, a gang, posing to be policemen, took the friend away and made him sign on a blank paper.

She said further that she received a phone call after bringing her son home. The caller, who identified himself to be the CEO of a media house, told her that unless Siddharth fell at his feet and apologised he would not be pardoned, according to sources.