Chennai police inspector gunned by burglars in Rajasthan

News Network
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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January 28,2020

Nagpur, Jan 28: A 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped and an iron rod was inserted in her private parts by a man in the Pardi area here, police said on Monday.

The gruesome incident took place on January 21 and the accused, Yogilal Rahangdale (52), was arrested from Gondia district, they said.

The accused was working as a supervisor in a spinning mill where the woman was employed as a labourer, the police said.

The woman, her brother, the accused and another girl lived in rented accommodations in Pardi.

Inspector Sunil Chavan of the Pardi police station said that the woman's brother and her female friend had gone to their village on January 21 for some work.

As the woman was alone at home, Rahangdale attempted to rape her in the night. When she resisted, he stuffed a piece of cloth in her mouth, he said.

When she fell unconscious, the accused raped her and inserted an iron rod in her private parts, Chavan said, quoting from the complaint filed by the victim.

She narrated the incident to her brother on January 24 and they subsequently lodged a complaint with the police.

An offence was registered against the accused at the Pardi police station.

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May 1,2020

Lucknow, May 1: Six members of a family were allegedly hacked to death by another family member over a property dispute in Gudauli village in the Banthra area on the outskirts of the city on Thursday, police said.

The accused, Ajay Singh (26), went to the local police station after committing the crime and surrendered, they added.

Singh allegedly had a heated argument with the family members over a property and attacked them with a sharp-edged weapon, the police said.

The accused allegedly killed his mother, father, elder brother, his wife and two children -- a son and a daughter -- they added.

The victims were identified as Amar (60), Ramsakhi (55), Arun (40), Ramdulari (35), Saurabh (7) and Sarika (2).

When asked, Commissioner of Police Sujeet Pandey said six members of a family were killed and the accused surrendered before the police.

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January 15,2020

Chandigarh, Jan 15: A man, who has killed two women over infidelity over the last 10 years was arrested from a news channel studio in Chandigarh when he confessed to these crimes during a live programme, police said.

In the television programme on News18, the 31-year-old accused, Maninder Singh, who is a cab driver, confessed killing his live-in partner, a 27-year-old nurse Sarabjit Kaur at a Chandigarh hotel on New Year's Eve.

Singh, a former murder convict and currently out on bail, also confessed about his crime committed in Karnal in 2010.

"I killed her (Sarabjit Kaur) because she was having an affair with her sister-in-law's brother," Maninder told the news channel.

Confessing his previous crime, Maninder said he had killed Renu in Karnal. "She was also having an affair with a man from Uttar Pradesh," he said.

Singh was arrested while the programme was still on air as police rushed into the studio.

Haryana Police had arrested him for killing the woman in 2010. He was convicted by a trial court, but he later got bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

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