Five persons arrested in connection with the looting and arson during the funeral procession of Hindu Munnani functionary C Sasikumar here on September 23, have been ordered to be detained under the Goondas Act.

City police commissioner A Amalraj ordered the detention of Madankumar (23), Kannan (32) Saravanan (23), A Vignesh (20) and J Bhupathi (23), lodged in the Vellore Jail, under Goondas Act, a police department release said.