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 7,2020

Meerut: The licence of a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut has been suspended after a video showing its staff member providing fake Covid-19 report had gone viral.

"A video had gone viral in Meerut. We have registered a case in this regard. We have suspended the licence of the nursing home. Today, we have sealed it also. Strict action will be taken against anybody who will do something like this in this time of crisis,” said Anil Dhingra, District Magistrate, Meerut.

In the video, the person can be heard saying that they provide Covid-19 negative report for Rs 2,500, Dhingra stated.

Meerut CMO Rajkumar said, “In the video, a man from the hospital can be heard saying that he can arrange COVID-19 negative report and the person can get operation or other things done. We have identified the man. We have suspended the licence of the hospital and an FIR has been registered.”

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May 26,2020

Warangal, May 26: A 26-year-old man from Bihar was arrested here for murdering nine people by throwing them into a well to cover the murder of a woman, police said on Monday.

Dr Ravinder, Commissioner of Police (CP), Warangal, said that the bodies were recovered on May 21 and May 22 from the well. Investigation has revealed that the accused, Sanjay Kumar Yadav, killed all of them to cover up the murder of Rafiqa, with whom he had a relationship.

He said that Yadav got acquainted with a person named Maqsood and his sister-in-law Rafiqa. "Slowly, he came close to Rafiqa and started living together with her three children. Yadav tried to misbehave with Rafiqa's 15-year-old daughter. Rafiqa did not like this and threatened to lodge a complaint against him," Ravinder said.

"Then, Yadav planned to kill Rafiqa in order to live with her daughter. Yadav promised Rafiqa to marry. They boarded a train to West Bengal from March 7. Yadav mixed sleeping tablets in the food packet and later strangulated her, and threw her body outside the train," he said.

According to police, Yadav later came back to Warangal but Maqsood's wife Nisha started questioning him about the whereabouts of Rafiqa.

"Nisha threatened to lodge a police complaint against him. With a premeditated motive, from May 16 to May 20, he visited Maqsood's family who stayed in a gunny bag factory," he said.

Yadav purchased sleeping pills from Warangal and mixed in the food on the birthday of Maqsood's elder son on May 20, police said.

"Maqsood and his five family members were living there. Yadav mixed sleeping pills in the food and later they consumed it. Maqsood's family friend Shakeel was also there. Then, he went to the first floor of the factory where two labourers were staying. He mixed sleeping pills in their food too. He suspected that they may get up and create a problem. To cover up the murder of Rafiqa, he killed nine people," Ravinder said.

At around 12:30 am, Yadav woke up and saw that everyone is asleep, according to police.

"Then, he used the gunny bags to drag all the nine people into the well. He threw the gunny bag one by one into the well," Ravinder said.

According to the police, six teams were deployed to investigate the case.

"Yadav has been arrested now and will be taken to police custody. We will collect all evidence and ensure that he gets maximum punishment for this offence," Ravinder said.

 

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abdullah
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Thursday, 4 Jun 2020

Yadav will be released by court saying that he is mentally sick and he did not kill 10 people intentionally.  

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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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