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Explosive materials seized two persons arrested in madurai
Posted by ganesh in Smugglings, Theft, Transport, Virudhunagar, arrested, illegal, police on March 9th, 2010
Explosive materials, including 100 gelatine sticks and 1,300 detonators, have been seized and two persons arrested in this connection in Virudhunagar district, police said here on Tuesday.
Police found the explosives in a van during a routine check Monday night.
Ten spark plugs and 800 kg of ammonium nitrate were also seized from the vehicle after the driver could not account for the explosives and the purpose for which they were being transported, they said.
Besides the driver, another person in the van was also arrested.
Six-member gang of chain snatchers Chennai Police arrested
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Other, Theft, government, illegal, police, programme on February 16th, 2010
A six-member gang of chain snatchers who were targeting bus passengers at Pulianthope in North Chennai were arrested on Monday.
The arrested were identified as Suresh alias Karuka Suresh, Basha, Manikandan, Karunadas, Sasikumar and Selvam.
Briefing on the modus operandi of this gang, City Police Commissioner T Rajendran said they would board a crowded bus and keep an eye on women passengers who travel with gold jewellery quite visible on their clothes.
Karukka Suresh who has perfected in the art of chain snatching would engage in removing off the gold chains with his teeth and get down from the moving bus. His accomplices would follow the particular bus in an autorickshaw.
As soon as Suresh gets down from the bus, the gang would escape in the auto. The gang usually travelled with deadly weapons in the auto to threaten people who dare to follow them.
It may be noted the gang was involved in chain snatching at Pulianthope, Otteri, Basin Bridge, MKB Nagar, Chindaripet, Egmore, Aminjikarai, ICF, Koyambedu, Guindy, Velachery, Virugambakkam and Alandur, he said.
Police have seized 65 sovereign of gold jewellery worth Rs 12 lakh, 15 cell phones, two autorickshaws and Rs 50,000 in cash from them. The gang was allegedly involved in 18 chain snatching cases. The Police Commissioner later handed over the recovered stolen goods to the respective owners.
Fishermen, CPI(M) volunteers held for trying to picket Raj Bhavan
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Culture, Departments, Other, competition, fishermen, government, illegal, police on February 2nd, 2010
About 300 fishermen and volunteers of CPI(M), led by its state unit Secretary N Varadarajan were arrested today, when they attempted to picket the Raj Bhavan, protesting against the attack on fishermen by the Lankan Navy and demanding that the Centre drop its proposed legislation, seeking to restrict fishing.
When the activists tried to take out a procession to the Raj Bhavan from Panagal building in Saidapet, police stopped them, after which, a delegation, led by Mr Varadarajan met the Governor’s Secretary and presented a memorandum, pressing their demands.
After the leaders returned to Panagal building, the volunteers, who included fishermen, who came from the coastal districts of Kanniyakumari and Cuddalore, squatted on the road, when police arrested them.
Those who courted arrest included Mr Varadarajan, party Rajya Sabha Member T K Rangarajan, Legislator K Mahendiran, former MLA W R Varadarajan and Fishermen Associations Federation President P Karunanidhi.
The memorandum to the Governor sought the Centre’s intervention to stop the attacks on Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.
Chennai police arrested Amjad Khwaja, top commander of HuJI
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Information, police, terrorist on January 18th, 2010
Chennai police on Monday arrested Amjad Khwaja, a top commander of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) terrorist outfit.
Khwaja, a most wanted terrorist, was said to be behind the Hyderabad twin blasts in 2007 and also the Ajmer blasts in 2008.
He was also wanted in the sensational 2005 task force office suicide bomb attack case, in which a home guard was killed.
Khwaja is being brought to Hyderabad for further interrogation.
The police have arrested two more people in murder of R. Vetrivel case
Posted by ganesh in Attack, Communication, Murders, Politics, Tirunel veli, illegal on January 12th, 2010
The police have arrested two more people, including the prime suspect, in connection with the murder of Sub Inspector R. Vetrivel, who was attacked on a main road in Tirunelveli Jan 7 and bled to death in front of ministers and officials.
A gang killed Vetrivel by mistake as the intended target was another cop named D. Sivasubramanian attached to the Kadayam police station, officials said here Tuesday. Vetrivel was in the Alwarkurichi police station in Tirunelveli district of southern Tamil Nadu.
The police Monday arrested D. Sivasubramanian’s wife S. Sivakami and Ayyappan, a friend of Sivakami’s brother. The brother had been arrested Saturday.
Meanwhile, A. Subramanian of Tuticorin district Monday surrendered in a Madurai court in connection with Vetrivel’s murder.
With this the number of people in police custody in connection with Vetrivel’s murder has gone up to six.
The police are on the lookout for the remaining members of the gang.
The death drew widespread condemnation of the ministers and officials who saw the policeman lying on the road and shouting for help, but they waited for an ambulance rather than take him to hospital in one of their cars. The incident figured in the state assembly Monday.
Unemployed Graduate Tamil Teachers association were arrested
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Education, Other, Thanjavur, competition, function, illegal, police on December 30th, 2009
Over 46 members of Unemployed Graduate Tamil Teachers association were arrested here today they continued their fast for the second day without police permission.
The association members started the fast in front of the Tamil University yesterday urging the State Government to provide jobs to all of them under a special quota in the wake of the World Classical Tamil Conference next year.
Police had granted permission for a one-day fast only. Since they continued the fast for the second day without permission, they were arrested.
The association also wanted the government to upgrade the three- year diploma course (Pulavar)in Tamil Literature to degree course and appoint those with B Ed Degree as Tamil teachers.
Two Iranians Tehran were arrested for possessing fake Indian currency
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Other, Smugglings, illegal, police on December 30th, 2009
Two female tourists hailing from Tehran were arrested for possessing fake Indian currency while shopping at a lifestyle store in Chennai on Tuesday.
The two women, incidentally mother and daughter and identified as Mortazavi Asraf and Asraf Soloni, are on a month long visit to India.
Reportedly holding tourist visas, they arrived in the country on December 2 and visited many places.
In the upmarket Mylapore area, they were purchasing clothes at a store when the shop owner smelt a rat on the veracity of the notes and informed the police.
Soon the police personnel arrived on the scene and found fake currency notes worth Rs. 23000 all in the denomination of500 rupees.
‘Two females from abroad said to be from Tehran, Iran, traded to exchange the counterfeit currency in this shop. We rushed immediately and conducted a search and found out that they were possessing fake currency of about 23000 rupees. We consulted the bank officials who also confirmed the currency to be fake,’ said Jawahar, Inspector of Police, Mylapore Police Station.
Mortazavi Asraf (62) and her daughter Asraf Soloni (25) were produced in the city court and were remanded to judicial custody till January 12.
The passports of both the ladies have been confiscated.
Several cases of fake currency, being smuggled into India have been reported form several parts of the country.
Vaiko behind bars the Mullaperiyar issue
MDMK general secretary Vaiko along with thousands of his supporters including farmers was arrested today for resorting to a road roko condemning the Kerala government, which is trying to construct a dam over Mullaperiyar.
When protestors led by the MDMK supremo who gathered at the VOC Ground in Cumbum tried to block an arterial road in the southern town, they were detained by the police, sources said.
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Huge number of police personnel who were deployed to prevent any untoward incident took the agitators in vans, the sources added.
Addressing the gathering earlier, Vaiko alleged that the Union and the Kerala governments were cheating the people of Tamilnadu on the Mullaperiyar issue.
‘The Supreme Court has clearly said Tamilnadu government should carry out the maintanence works of the dam. But Kerala has passed a resolution in the Assembly over the safety of the dam. This is against the Constitution of India. Why has the Centre not questioned Kerala?’
He said financial restrictions should be imposed on Kerala.
A staunch supporter of the LTTE and sympathiser of Sri Lankan Tamils, Vaiko was earlier arrested by the Q Branch CID of the Tamilnadu Police in October 2008 on charges of sedition.
The charges are based on the speeches made at a party meeting on the Sri Lankan issue in Chennai. Vaiko warned that India extending help to protect Sri Lanka’s integrity would jeopardise India’s own unity and integrity.
He reportedly said he would be ready to take up arms and fight for the Tamils in the island nation. A general alert was sounded across Tamilnadu following the arrest.
Car collision kills 2, injures 3 in Uthamapalayam.
Two persons were killed and three injured when their car collided with a bus at Thennenchalai near Uthamapalayam in Theni district early today.
Police said the victims were part of a group of family members returning to Chennai after visiting the Lord Ayyappa shrine at Sabarimala. The State Transport Corporation bus was proceeding to Cumbum from Trichirappalli.
The injured were admitted to Hospital.
The bus driver was arrested
Counterfeit note racket: key accused held
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Other, government, illegal on December 26th, 2009
In a breakthrough in the investigations into the circulation of fake Indian currency notes in the country, a 48-year-old man from Jharkhand, a key accused in the racket, has been arrested, police here said.
A team of the Tamil Nadu Crime Branch-CID arrested Manarul Sheikh from Jharkhand with assistance of their counterparts there after investigations in that state for over a month.
He is the fourth from Jharkhand to be held in connection with the racket.
Earlier in September, Alakash Sheik, Mohammed Raju Sheik, Mohammed Zahir Sheik (all from Jharkhand), Latha and Rukshna (from West Bengal) were arrested, a CB-CID release said today.
Ninetyone fake notes in the denomination of Rs 1,000 were seized from them, it said.
Manarul Sheikh, who has been remanded to judicial custody, is suspected to be involved in the circulation of fake Indian currencies at many places in the country. – Agencies
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