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Notorious Criminal Vice President Sridhar arrested under the Goondas Act
Posted by ganesh in Attack, Information, Kancheepuram, Murders, Other, Rape, Smugglings, Vellore, arrested, bomb, cheating, illegal, police, terrorist on March 12th, 2010
Notorious Criminal, Bootlegger and Kancheepuram Panchayat Union Committee Vice President Sridhar was arrested under the Goondas Act.
Following a directive from District Collector, Sridhar was yesterday formally arrested under the Act.
The orders were served at the Vellore Central Prison where he was lodged.
This was the fifth time the Act was being invoked against Sridhar.
Police had recently arrested Sridhar, against whom 60 cases were pending, at a five star restaurant in Chennai along with seven others and seized a car carrying country-made bombs and lethal weapons.
He was later taken to the Vellore Central Prison.
Following a recommendation from SP Prem Anand Sinha, Sridhar was formally arrested under the Goondas Act.
Sridhar had more than 60 cases pending against him including those involving murder and illegal sale of liqour.
CPI(M) workers attack a private Tamil Channel which claimed WRV’s death row
Posted by ganesh in Attack, Chennai, Communication, Culture, Information, Murders, Other, Political, illegal on March 5th, 2010
Enraged activists of CPI(M) today attacked a private Tamil Satellite Channel which claimed that the missing Marxist leader W R Varadarajan, who had presumably committed suicide, had in fact been murdered.
The Channel owned by the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), in its news bulletin since last night, quoted the post mortem report and said the veteran CPI(M) leader, who went missing on February 11, was strangulated to death.
To substantiate its claim, the channel said the strangulation marks on the either side of the neck suggested that Varadarajan was strangulated to death and his body was thrown into a lake.
Taking objections to the report, CPI(M) workers, carrying party flags, picketed the Channel office, staged an agitation and pelted stones, damaging the window panes.
Not to be outdone, a PMK Ward Councillor, along with his supporters attacked the CPI(M) State Office at Vaidhyaraman street in T Nagar and damaged the window panes.
A highly decomposed body was recovered from a lake on February 13 and was kept in the mortuary of the Government Hospital. Later it was identified as that of Varadarajan by his family members and the Party leaders and the body was cremated on February 20.
Wanted UP criminal nabbed in Chennai
Posted by ganesh in Attack, Chennai, Departments, Information, Murders, Other, arrested, illegal, police on March 4th, 2010
A most wanted criminal from Uttar Pradesh carrying a reward of Rs 50, 000 on his head was arrested in suburban Madhavaram last night.
Sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) and Chennai suburban police, in a joint operation, arrested Israr Paggal who was accused in crimes such as kidnapping, murder and attack on policemen.
Israr, who had been absconding for the past nine years, hails from Unnao district. He came to Chennai where he was working as a scrap-dealer near north Perumbakkam under the Madhavaram police station limits.
Based on a tip-off that Paggal had shifted his base to Chennai, UP police sought the help of Suburban Police Commissioner S R Jangid. In a subsequent joint operation, police trapped him near Madhavaram.
Paggal was allegedly involved in at least 37 cases of heinous crime registered with the Beconganj police station in Kanpur. He was notorious in Kanpur and Lucknow and had injured a sub-inspector in Gomtinagar, Lucknow. He used to extort money from many of the high profile people of the Industrial City.
Keeping in view his criminal activities, the UP police had also announced a reward of Rs 50,000 on his arrest.
Paggal is a wanted criminal and his name also figures into a kidnapping incident reported with the Gangaghat police station in Unnao on 5 May 2000.
The accused along with his associates had abducted an 18-year-old youth Farhatullah, son of Zafarullah of Gangaghat. The accused had demanded Rs 5 lakh as a ransom for the safe release of the youth.Paggal will be produced before the Chennai Metropolitan Magistrate Court later today and taken to Kanpur later.
30-year-old pregnant woman was raped and murdered
Mystery shrouds the death of a 30-year-old pregnant woman, whose body was found near the thorny bushes at the Potheri Railway station near Maraimalai nagar, about 50 km from here, this morning.
Police said the woman was raped and murdered and the body was dumped in the bush.
Quoting preliminary inquest, police said the woman was raped and strangulated to death.
Based on a medical prescription recovered from her handbag, she was identified as Bhuvaneswari of Vengaivasal near Tambaram.
The body was taken to Chengalpet Government Hospital.
Maraimalainagar police registered a case and were investigating.
Customs official hacked to death by an armed group
A 43-year-old Customs official, working at the Air Cargo Complex of Chennai Airport, was hacked to death by an armed group in his house in Adambakkam late on Sunday night.
His wife and two sons, seated in the car, were also targetted by the assailants, but had a narrow escape as the gang fled. Chennai Suburban Police said P. Samson, a Customs Examining Officer at the Air Cargo Complex, was a resident of Fifth Cross Street in the Officers’ Colony in Adambakkam. His wife, Daisy, was also with the Customs Department, working as a Preventive Officer at Chennai Port.
On Sunday morning, they left in their car along with their sons, Eric and Erwin, to Chengalpattu for the final rites of a relative. They returned home and went to Koyambedu to see off a relative travelling out of town. After dinner at Ashok Nagar, they reached home at 10.50 p.m.
Samson parked his car in the portico and returned to close the main gate of the house, when a man pounced on him and attacked him with a sickle. Shocked, Ms. Daisy and her two sons, remained in the car. Moments later, more men came to the spot and indiscriminately hacked Samson, killing him instantly.
The men also targetted Ms. Daisy and her sons, and attacked the car, breaking the glass of a window. However, the group fled from the spot. Meanwhile, Ms. Daisy called the police control from her mobile phone and a patrol vehicle of Adambakkam police station reached her house. However, they were unable to trace the assailants who had vanished by then.
The incident sent shockwaves in Officers’ Colony and the neighbouring area in Adambakkam. Samson’s body was taken to Tambaram Taluk Government Hospital in Chromepet for the post-mortem. A large number of relatives, friends and colleagues gathered at the hospital.
Adambakkam police said they had named 11 people, including Paulina, a woman living opposite Samson’s house, her sons Ilayaraja and Manikandan, as accused in the First Information Report. Nine of them – Ilayaraja and Manikandan, and their friends, Lakshmanan, Nagoor, Vinod, Gani, Prasanna Kumar, Gopinath and Rajesakar, 9 aqusted in Chengalpattu on Monday morning. They were searching for Pauline and another male accomplice.
Paulina, police said, built a small temple on a public road and Samson had donated towards its festivals. However, she had begun to shower abuses on Samson and his family members, picking up a quarrel with him at every given opportunity in the past two to three years.
His relatives at the Chromepet hospital told reporters that fearing for the life of his family members and property, Samson had installed a couple of cameras in his house. Visuals of the murder being carried out by the gang on Sunday night were obtained. Those who had gathered at the hospital were angry that though the police were aware of the existing animosity, they had failed to caution her against casuing harm to Samson or his family. One of them charged that policemen had even advised Samson to move out of the locality for his own safety and that of his family.
Jude, the victim’s brother-in-law, said Samson moved into the locality in 2005 and unable to put up with the harassment and intimation from Paulina any further, he had begun the construction of a new house on Hoppmen Street in Alandur, near his mother’s home. It was nearing completion and they were preparing to shift to the new house in April.
Police said Paulina, around 50 years old, was involved in several nefarious offences in the past, including drug peddling and the flesh trade. She had lodged a complaint with the State Human Rights Commission last year seeking action against Samson for allegedly abusing her by using her community name. However, the charges were established as being false, intensifying her anger against him, police added.
Triple murder case in Ashok Nagar to transfer the CB CID
The Madras High Court on Monday said it was of the view that if the Chennai Police is not able to solve a triple murder case in Ashok Nagar within four weeks, the Commissioner of Police will request the State Government to transfer the case to the CB CID.
The crime relates to the murder of Saravanan, his wife Kasturi and a female domestic worker , Anbarasi, in November 2008.
The First Bench comprising Chief Justice H.L. Gokhale and Justice K.K. Sasidharan passed the order while disposing of a petition by S.D.S. Rajadhevan, a city advocate. The petition had been filed in public interest to bring to light the number of murders that had occurred in Ashok Nagar here.
The petitioner, a retired Superintendent of Police, CB CID, said as a resident of Ashok Nagar he was rudely shocked and affected seeing the sorry state-of-affairs of the police, particularly in the investigation of murder cases which remained unresolved.
Despite the infrastructure and manpower, the police were unable to put in their best to protect the public and bring the culprits to book immediately. There was little or no coordination, supervision or detection of property cases and grave crimes.
His main prayer was a direction to the authorities to transfer all the murder cases of Chennai Police for further investigation by CB CID or CBI so as to ensure proper investigation and to restore public confidence.
The Government Pleader had earlier filed a report pointing out how security arrangements in the locality (Ashok Nagar) had been enhanced.
It was also stated that though there were 19 murders in the area since 2008, 18 had been promptly detected. It was only one case of triple murder which remained unsolved.
The Commissioner of Police in his affidavit submitted that 10 special teams had been formed to look into the case and it was hoped that investigation would move towards its logical conclusion and that the accused would be arrested.
On the prayer to transfer the case to CB CID, it was stated in the counter that if there was any difficulty in solving the case, the Commissioner would not hesitate to request the government to hand over the case to CB CID.
The Bench said, however, no time limit had been specified for completing this exercise. It was quite natural it would be difficult to specify any time limit in this regard. At the same time, there was justification in the petitioner’s anxiety for early action. The triple murder case had remained unresolved for more than a year now.
The court said the petitioner may assist the authorities in the matter of investigation of the case.
Two criminals were shot dead attacked a police team gunfight
Two criminals were shot dead here Monday after they attacked a police team that tried to nab them, authorities said.
“The city police got a tip off that Dindugal Pandi and his accomplice Velu were hiding at Panniyur near here. When the police came to nab them, they attacked the team and injured two cops while trying escape,” a police officer said.
“The police in turn shot dead Pandi and Velu,” the police officer said.
According to police, several murder and kidnap cases were lodged against Pandi.
“The police were on the lookout for him for a long time,” the officer added.
While the two injured policemen have been admitted to a private hospital, the bodies of the two criminals have been sent to Royapettah Government Hospital here for postmortem examination.
Army Medical Officer was murdered by a two-member rowdy at picnic spot
A 33-year-old Army Medical Officer was murdered by a two-member rowdy gang at Mukkombu, a famous picnic spot, near here.
Police said the gang yesterday attacked him when he resisted them from snatching a gold chain from his wife.
The victim was identified as Dr Ramesh hailing fom Tumkur in Kanataka. He was employed in a defence unit in Coimbatore.
Dr Ramesh, who came here for fresh recruitment for army, finished his work and visited Mukkombu along with his family.
When the gang tried to snatch a gold chain from his wife Anuradha at knife point, he rushed for the rescue of his wife.
Following an altercation, one of the gang members slit his throat with a knife. However, the culprits managed to escape from the scene.
The official was rushed to a private hospital here, where doctors declared him brought dead.
Later, the body was sent to the Government Headquarters Hospital for post mortem.
Inspector General of Police (Central Zone) Karan Sinha and other top police officials visited the spot.
Gangster’s involved in way-laying, in a sack and dumped in Buckingham canal
Police today recovered the body of a gangster, involved in way-laying, in a sack and dumped in Buckingham canal near Vyasarpadi.
The man, identified as Kalaiarasan (26), was apparently murdered by his accomplices following a dispute in sharing the booty.
Police said, Kalaiarasan (26), a resident of B Kalayanapuram near Vyasarpadi was found missing since 28 January. Based on a complaint from his wife Tamarai Selvi, police launched a search for him.
Subsequently a police team picked up one Manoj Raj in connection with a waylaying case and during the course of the interrogation with him, police came to know that he was an accomplice of Kalaiarasan.
Further interrogations with him revealed that he and his robber mates had murdered Kalai Arasan over a dispute in sharing a booty which they had stolen from one Bhagyamary of Arakonam.
Manoj, who confessed to have committed the crime along with six others members, told the police that on the fateful day he along with Kalai Arasan, Manikandan, Prabhu, Kamesh, Prabha and Sathish snatched a five sovereign gold chain from Bhagyamary near Vyasaropadi.
The gang members who decided to share the loot had gathered near Basin bridge. It was then when Kalaiarasan is said to have demanded extra share and this led to fierce argument and a violent fracas.
The accomplices who were enraged over his act hit his head with a beer bottle, killing him on the spot. They later put his body in a gunny bag and dumped it in Buckingham canal, police sources said.
Based on Manoj Raj’s confessional statement, police traced the body which was in a decomposed state and sent it for a post-mortem to Government Stanley hospital.
Enquiries revealed that among the six member gang Prabha, Sathish and Kamesh were lodged in Puzhal prison in connection with a waylaying case a few weeks ago.
Following this, police arrested Manoj Raj, Manikandan and Prabhu and remanded them to judicial custody.
The victim is survived by wife and two children. However police said no cases were pending against the deceased so far.
Hand of ex-Minister’s son seen in realtor’s death
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Murders, Other, businesses, illegal, police on January 25th, 2010
The body of a 65-year-old realtor who had gone missing from T Nagar, Chennai, a few weeks ago was found charred near Kathirvedu village in Andhra Pradesh.
Initial investigations hint at a possibility of abduction and murder over a financial dispute.
Police are grilling four persons including the son of former AIADMK Minister in connection with the case.
Police said the victim Mani, running a real estate company at Royapettah, did not return home on 7 January. So, his wife lodged a complaint at the Mylapore Police Station and a search began.
Later, police received information about an unidentified body in a charred condition near Shakthivedu village. Police rushed to the spot and identified the body to be that of the missing realtor.
Interrogations with the realtor’s wife Parvathi revealed that four men — Kumaraguru, son of former AIADMK Minister Natesan Balraj, Munusamy, Kandasamy and Prasad — had met the victim at his residence the day before he went missing.
Police grilled the four men and they reportedly said they took Mani to Thiruvallur for talks and later sent him back home. But, police suspect that the realtor had been abducted, murdered and his body burned by these men to destroy evidence.
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