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Chennai police inspector gunned by burglars in Rajasthan

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December 13, 2017

Chennai, Dec 13: Periya Pandi, a 48-year-old police inspector from Chennai, was gunned down by burglars in a village in Palidistrict of Rajasthan in the early hours of Wednesday when he and a team of police personnel went there to nab the prime suspect in a burglary case reported in Kolathur here this year.

The Chennai police had recently nabbed four suspects in the burglary case. Pandi, who was the Maduravoyal law and order police inspector, and a team of police personnel from Anna Nagar police district, went to the Rajasthan village after they received a tip off that the prime suspect was living in a house there.

The team barged into the suspect's house in Jai Taran village around 2.30am. There were a few men in the house. They opened fire on the police personnel and escaped from there. Periya Pandi and four others suffered injuries.

The police personnel from Chennai had two pistols for their personal safety. However, they didn't expect an ambush.

The police team alerted the local police. The local police rescued all the five injured policemen and sent them to a government hospital there.

Doctors examined Periya Pandi and declared him dead on arrival.

The other injured policemen were shifted to a police private hospital in Pali district.

The Rajasthan police registered a case and launched a hunt for the suspects.

Chennai city police commissioner A K Viswanathan asked joint commissioner of police (West Chennai) Santhosh Kumar to visit Rajasthan to pursue the issue further.

Viswanathan said, "I am talking to the senior officers in Rajasthan and also seeking help from my batchmates in that state. The Rajasthan police are helpful and cooperating. The injured cops are stable now. I spoke to them. It is a great set back to the city police. However, we should learn from this."

The Chennai police team didn't inform the local police when they went Jai Taran village.

Pandi's family and relatives left for Rajasthan to bring his body to Chennai after postmortem. Pandi hailed from Moovirundhali village near Tirunelveli.

Pandi, a direct batch SI of 2000 batch, was promoted as inspector in 2014. He was posted as Aminjikarai crime inspector. He excelled in solving criminal cases. Recently, he arrested a burglar involved in stealing parked vehicles including many luxury cars. He seized eight cars from the suspect.

Appreciating his hard work, the city police commissioner appointed him as the Maduravoyal law and order police inspector.

Kumaran Nagar police inspector G S Pushparaj, who was Pandi's his batchmate and roommate, said, "He always said he was proud to wear the uniform and he loved to work as a cop."

He added, "We both got training in Coimbatore along with 96 others. My roll number was 11. Periya Pandi's roll number was 7. He always excelled in all the training courses. We both stayed in the same room in the barracks."

Pandi was living in Nehru Street in Avadi with his family. He is survived by his wife and two sons. His son, Ruban, is a first year student in a city college and the second son is studying in Class VIII.

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July 31,2020

Amaravati, Jul 31: Nine people have died after allegedly consuming sanitiser in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh today, the police said.

Prakasam district Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal said the people had been consuming sanitiser for the past few days, mixing it with water and soft drinks.

"We are also investigating whether they laced the sanitiser with any other toxic substances," the official said.

"Their family members say these people have been consuming sanitiser for the past ten days. We are sending the sanitiser stocks, being sold in the area, for examination," he added.

Kurichedu in Prakasam district has been under lockdown due to rise in coronavirus cases and hence, liquor shops have also been shut since the past few days.

Habitual drinkers were said to be consuming sanitisers that have alcohol content, apart from illicitly distilled arrack.

The police said two beggars near a temple were the first to fall victim on Thursday night. While one of them was found dead at the spot, another died in the government hospital in Darsi town, they said.

A third person was also taken to the Darsi hospital late on Thursday night after he fell unconscious but he was declared brought dead. Six others who fell ill after allegedly consuming sanitiser, died this morning.

Others who fell ill after consuming sanitiser are undergoing treatment at their residences in the village, the police added.

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January 20,2020

Ahmedabad, Jan 20: Cops in Gandhinagar fell in a catch-22 situation when a state government employee approached them with a complaint that the 26-year-old woman class teacher of his 14-year-old son had gone missing taking his son in tow. The man, who works at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar said the woman had seduced his teenage son, who studies in class VIII and taken him away with her. The boy had gone missing from 4pm on Friday, and the classteacher was also missing.

A police official said the woman teacher had been too intimate with the allegedly missing boy for around a year, and the school authorities had recently rebuked them. “As their relationship was unaccepted, they left their homes on Friday,” he said. It was rare to find a case of a woman teacher eloping with her teenage student, the official added.

An FIR for elopement under Section 363 IPC has been registered with Kalol city police in Gandhinagar district. The complaint stated the teacher is a resident of Darbari chawl in Kalol town.

“When I reached home at around 7pm, I found my son missing. My wife told me he had left home at around 4pm. We searched for him in the neighbourhood and among relatives, but couldn’t trace him,” claims the teenage boy’s father in the FIR. “I went to the teacher’s house but they were not there,” the man stated.

Inspector K K Desai of Kalol city police said the missing duo could not be traced as they were not carrying cellphones.

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May 31,2020

Bareilly, May 31: The Bareilly couple who had made headlines in July last year when they eloped and apprehended a threat to their life from the girl's father who is a BJP MLA in UP, is back in the news.

Ajitesh, now son-in-law of BJP MLA Rajesh Mishra, and his friend were arrested on Saturday for allegedly thrashing a youth and snatching his cell phone after a minor road mishap in Prem Nagar area of Bareilly district.

Ajitesh is married to Sakshi, daughter of the MLA and the couple had eloped last year and got married.

According to police, the youth was on his way home after buying medicines for his friend's father when his bike hit Ajitesh's SUV. Ajitesh and his friend thrashed the youth and snatched his cell phone.

Police said Ajitesh and his friend Vaibhav Gangwar were booked under IPC section 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) and other relevant sections.

Both have been sent to jail.

The complainant Deepanshu Maheshwari said, "When I overtook Ajitesh's car, he chased and waylaid me in the middle of the road. Thereafter, he and his friend thrashed me and snatched my phone. SHO Balbir Singh and his team rescued me."

The SHO told reporters, "We checked CCTV footage and spoke to witnesses only to find that Ajitesh and his friend had thrashed the youth. A case was registered under relevant sections and both were sent to jail after being produced before a magistrate on Saturday. The youth has been admitted to a hospital and his condition is stable."

The BJP MLA, incidentally, had snapped all his ties with his daughter Sakshi after she eloped and married Ajitesh.

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