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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February 11,2020

Mumbai, Feb 11: A 65-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her husband over debt and illness in suburban Powai here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident came to light when Sheela Ajit Lad was found dead by her neighbours at Sukh Shanti Co-operative Society at around 9.30 pm on Monday, an official said.

The victim was allegedly killed by her husband Ajit Lad, who hit her on the head with a heavy object, slit her wrists and strangled her to death, he said.

The accused absconded at around 7.30 pm, leaving a note at the crime scene, saying he was going to commit suicide and had killed his wife because he was heavily in debt and she was suffering from an ailment, the official said.

The childless couple lived alone in the apartment, he added.

"On the basis of the note, we have registered a case of murder against Ajit Lad and have launched a manhunt for him. We have not traced him or found his body as he had mentioned suicide in the note," deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Zone X Ankit Goyal said.

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January 6,2020

New Delhi, Jan 6: A blind student who is pursuing research in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was also attacked by the mob that perpetrated violence in the University yesterday.

"I thought that the mob which came yesterday would disperse after raising a few slogans but they indulged in violence. They were targeting ABVP students. They beat me with sticks and rods. When I went to the AIIMS Trauma Centre, I came to know that there are many other injured students there," Surya Prakash, the blind student pursuing research in the University told ANI.

"I talked to my family members. They are really worried about the situation here. I qualified in the National Eligibility Test (NET) last year but I want to study and hence I am continuing research in JNU. How can we do anything in this atmosphere of fear? I am receiving calls from anonymous numbers threatening me not to come in front of the media. They are saying that as I am blind, I would become the face of this case," he added.

Another PhD student, Santosh Bhagat recounted his experience.

"In the evening at around 7 pm, many masked men entered the hostel. They had rods and sticks in their hands. We tried to go out but the attackers had entered the premises by then. I locked my room from inside but the attackers broke the door and entered my room and attacked me. They pushed me from the first floor and I fell down and sustained an injury. Later, I took shelter at one of the Professor's flat. Later, I was taken to the AIIMS Trauma Cantre," Bhagat said.

On Sunday evening, more than 30 students of the university, including JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, were injured and were taken to the AIIMS Trauma Centre after a masked mob entered the JNU and attacked them and professors with sticks and rods.

The JNU administration and political leaders, cutting across political lines, condemned the attack on students and urged the police to take action against the perpetrators.

Meanwhile, the situation remained tense but peaceful outside JNU on Monday morning as the university guards maintained a strict vigil at the gate, checking I-cards of all those entering the university.

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July 15,2020

Mumbai, Jul 15: A domestic row between a couple spilled onto road when a woman stopped her husbands car and climbed on its bonnet, briefly disrupting traffic on the busy Pedder Road in South Mumbai, police said on Wednesday.

The incident, which took place on Saturday evening, was recorded by some passersby on their mobile phones and its videos are making rounds on social media.

The wife chased the husband's SUV (sports utility vehicle) in her car after she spotted another woman seated next to him in his vehicle.

As her husband's SUV stopped at the Pedder Road signal, the wife get down from her car, rushed towards his four-wheeler and started shouting at him, a police official said.

In the video, the woman is seen climbing the bonnet of the SUV, removing her footwear and hitting the vehicle's windshield with it. She is also seen asking the husband's co- passenger to get out of the SUV and shouting for police help.

As she stopped her car in the middle of the busy road, one lane got blocked for some time and the traffic police personnel present there tried to ensure movement of other vehicles, the official said.

After sometime, the traffic police asked the couple to take their cars near the footpath.

By that time, the husband stepped out of his SUV, following which the wife ran towards him and caught him. She even kicked him a couple of times and took him to her car, the video shows.

She then again ran towards her husband's SUV, which was parked a few metres away. She opened its driver-side door and lunged at the woman seated in the vehicle, but was stopped by some people who had gathered at the spot, the police official said.

Later, the couple and their cars were taken to Gamdevi police station, where the wife refused to lodge a complaint against her husband.

A fine was imposed on her for traffic rules violation and abandoning her car in the middle of the road, which caused disruption of vehicular movement, the official said.

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