The Madras High Court has quashed a non-bailable arrest warrant against Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi and granted him anticipatory bail in the alleged multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam.

Granting the relief, Jusitce CT Selvam of the Madurai bench of the court directed Dayanidhi to surrender his passport and also to appear daily at the Melur Police Station until further orders.

The non-bailable arrest warrant against Dayanidhi was ordered by Judicial Magistrate V Jayakumar at Melur in Madurai district on a police plea in October.

Since then, a police team was on the look out for Dayanidhi. Dayanidhi and nine others are facing charges that firms owned by them had mined sand and granite without permission.