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Spurious fertiliser and pesticides manufacturing unit sealed
Posted by ganesh in Agriculture, Departments, Erode, Health, Other, arrested, illegal, police on August 30th, 2010
A spurious fertiliser and pesticides manufacturing unit at Kavindapady near here has been sealed by Agriculture department officials.
This followed complaints from farmers that fertiliser purchased from the unit had damaged their turmeric crop. The farmers had also resorted to a road-roko here last week in this regard.
Department officials said a raid on the unit revealed that the ‘fertiliser’ was being packed and put in bags with the labels of popular fertiliser companies. These were then sold in the market.
A search was on for the owner of the unit while his wife and a saleswoman were arrested,
Police have arrested 5 held in connection with goat theft case
Police have arrested five people, including brother-in-law of former AIADMK M L A Mookan, in connection with the goat theft case at Barasinghapuram under Thuraiyur police limits near here last night.
Police said there were continuous theft of goats in Narasinghapuram village in the past few days. Followig this, the villagers formed a vigil committee in which the committee members were moving around their village throughout the night. While doing so, they intercepted a mini van which came to their village in a suspecious manner. The villagers detained all the five occupants of the van including one Ramasamy, the brother-in-law of former Uppiliapuram AIADMK M L A Mookan and later they handed them over to the police.
Priliminary enquiries revealed that the gang had stolen the goats in that village several times and they came for the same purpose last night when they were detained by the villagers,
Four panchloha idols of Goddess Amman seized, 2 held
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Information, Smugglings, Theft, arrested, illegal, police on August 20th, 2010
The Idol Wing police of Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has seized four panchaloha idols of Goddess Amman worth Rupees 25 lakh and arrested two people in this connection.
Talking to reporters here today, EOW ADGP S K Dogra said acting on a tip-off, police detained two people at Kamarajar Salai on the beach road and seized the idols from their possession.
The duo, Justin of Lalgudi and Alwin Prabhakaran of Ariyualur, had come to the city to sell the idols to local traders, when they were nabbed.
During interrogations, it was revealed that the duo along with two others had stolen six idols from Greedhapurishwar Temple in Thanjavur district and buried them on the banks of river Cauvery.
They brought the two to Chennai to sell them.
Based on their confession, police recovered four idols of Lord Nataraja, Sivagami Amman and Chandrasekar from the banks of the river, the ADGP said.
Five held were arrested for threatening women police official
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Information, Tirunel veli, arrested, illegal, police on August 19th, 2010
Five persons, including two women, were arrested for threatening a woman police sub inspector at Veeravanallur police station here, police said here today.
Police said the five, introducing themselves as human rights activists, approached the sub inspector on Sunday and asked for documents regarding the arrest of one Suresh, who was booked under Goondas Act few months back.
As they did not carry any valid identity cards issued either by state or national Human Rights Commissions, she refused to give the documents following which they threatended the police official.
They were arrested later
Salem police rescued a 14-year-old boy within 12 hours 5 held
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Information, Other, Salem, Theft, arrested, businesses, illegal, kidnapped, police on May 10th, 2010
In a swift operation, the Salem police rescued a 14-year-old boy within 12 hours after he was kidnapped by a gang that had held him for ransom on Saturday night. All the five kidnappers were arrested.
Rohit (14), son of Sivaji (47), a silver merchant of Aryagoundanpatti, who was living with his grandmother at Seth village in Darbur district of Maharashtra, had come to his parents’ house during the summer vacation.
According to police, Rohit went out on a moped on Saturday night. At about 7 pm, a youth asked him for a lift. After they travelled some distance, the youth pulled out a knife, asked to stop the vehicle and follow him. Four more youth joined the two at a particular place.
Sivaji received a call around 9 pm demanding a ransom of Rs 5 lakh and the caller threatened to kill the boy if the money was not paid. Sivaji agreed to give Rs 2 lakh in cash and the balance in the form of silver bars.
While negotiations were on, neighbours came to know of the kidnap and informed the police, who instructed Sivaji to fix a place where the money could be handed over to the captors. The kidnappers told Sivaji to meet them at a remote place in Aryagoundanpatti. The neighbours and the police followed him at a distance. While Sivaji was handing over a bag of money, the police and neighbours swooped down and overpowered the gang.
According to the police, two of the gang members who threatened to knife the boy and tried to get away, were caught. In the melee, Rohit’s hand was injured with a knife. Interrogations revealed that the kidnap was executed by some unemployed youth who wanted to earn some quick money. The arrested include Manikandan (19) and Raj (23) from Selathanpatti, Palanisamy (20), Sivaprakash (23) and Srinivasan (21) from Ariyagoundenpatti.
CoP Sunil Kumar Singh gave a cash award to the team of police that rescued the boy in less than 12 hours.
Former Bishop of misappropriating funds was arrested
Posted by ganesh in Coimbatore, Departments, Information, Other, Public, cheating, illegal on May 8th, 2010
A former Bishop of a Church of South India diocese, facing charges of misappropriating funds, was arrested today for not appearing before a court which had summoned him for allegedly threatening a priest in Gudalur in Nilgiris district.
Manickam Durai, had been summoned by a Gudalur court following a complaint filed by Priest Raviraj alleging that the former bishop had threatened him, police said.
However, he failed to appear before the court after which the police arrested him from his residence this morning and produced him before the judge.
Police suspected enmity to be the reason behind Durai’s action.
Durai is facing charges of misappropriating Rs three crore from the church funds and was asked to go on leave by the church authorities.
Police have arrested Killers of rowdy, his advocate
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Court, Departments, Information, Murders, arrested, illegal, lawyer, police on May 6th, 2010
Chennai suburban police have arrested four persons in the murder of a notorious rowdy and his advocate near the Poonamallee Court complex recently.
The rowdy Chenna alias Chennakesavalu and his advocate were hacked to death by a 10-member gang while he was having lunch in his car near the court complex where he had come for a trial in an explosives case on 30 April.
Speaking to reporters today, Suburban Police Commissioner S R Jangid said six special teams, formed to catch the culprits, apprehended the four near suburban Parivakkam. Interrogations with them revealed that they were associates of rowdy ‘Arcot’ Suresh, key accused in a murder case.
The murder was a fallout of a personal enmity between ‘Arcot’ Suresh and Chenna, he said and added that the duo had constant trouble for more than 15 years since the former’s wife Anjalai eloped with Chenna.
The Commissioner said that over 21 persons were involved in the whole murder plan however only nine of them were present on the scene of crime. ‘We are on the lookout for 17 more persons who were involved in the crime. We have seized a motorcycle, a car and three sickles from the accused,’ he said.
The arrested were Velmurugan (24) of Nandambakkam, Rakesh (24) of K K Nagar, Satheesh (23) of Kunrathur and Raji (23) of Nandambakkam.
Chenna was residing in Chennai for the past 18 years and set up a gas agency at Pulianthope, he said and added that Chenna was arrested by the police in about 23 criminal offences, most of which ended in acquittal.
He was involved in the murder case of one Vijayakumar in Egmore Court in year 1996 and two other murder case in 2006. He was detained under the Goondas Act in 1994, 1996 and 2003.
‘Arcot’ Suresh was an accused in the murder case of one Srinivasan in Vijayawada in 2002 and Paramasivam of Kancheepuram.
TN cops to quiz Nithyananda again
Posted by ganesh in Information, Other, arrested, cheating, government, illegal, meeting, police, tamilnadu on May 4th, 2010
Chennai Police Commissioner T Rajendran on Monday said that a special team of police would again interrogate Swami Nithyananda, who was arrested by the Karnataka Police recently.
Speaking on the sidelines of a function in Chennai, he said, “a police team will soon visit Bengaluru for the purpose. We have obtained some vital information during our earlier interrogation with Nithyananda”.
Stating that strict action will be taken against those selling adulterated food items, he said, “the police personnel will provide all security to the corporation authorities who conduct raids on such shops”.
VCK arrested when attempted to damage the statue of Pasumpon Thevar
Posted by ganesh in Attack, Chennai, Communication, Information, Other, arrested, competition, illegal, police on April 30th, 2010
Three activists of the dalit-dominated Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) were arrested when they attempted to damage the statue of Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar in the city in the early hours today.
The VCK workers were protesting against the alleged stoning of the vehicle in which VCK President and Lok Sabha Member Thol Thirumavalavan was travelling to Tiruvarur, about 300 km from here, late last night.
However, police said, one of the convoy vehicles coming behind the VCK Chief’s car, was stoned, allegedly by Thevars.
On hearing the news, the VCK workers assembled in front of the statue installed near the Nandanam Signal and tried to damage it, when Teynampet Police acting on information, rushed to the spot and arrested them.
However, no damage was caused to the life size statue of Thevar, who was a veteran freedom fighter and an icon of the dominant Thevar community in southern districts.
Self-styled Swami Nithyananda has been arrested in Himachal Pradesh’s
Controversial Solan district.
Nithyananda was arrested in Arki by the Bangalore Police, who had sought the help of the Himachal Police. The self-styled swami was likely to be taken to the Solan court or the Simla court for transit remand.
Cases of rape, criminal intimidation and cheating have since been filed against the Godman based on various complaints.
Nithyananda had recently announced that he was quitting as the head of his ashram.
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