Class 8 student murders senior citizen to buy video games

June 13, 2012

Chennai, June 13: Police have arrested a class 8 student along with two others for murdering of a 69-year-old woman and throwing her charred body in the bushes near Thiruperumbudhu. The boy had allegedly devised a plan to kill her for money to buy video games.

Mahesh (name changed) of Ambattur studying in a private school visited his aunt Saritha's house in Eakaadu village near Tiruvallur. He asked Saritha to buy him a video game that cost Rs 8,000 but she told him she did not have the money. Mahesh and Saritha had invited their neighbour, Rajammal, to their house on Sunday afternoon. Mahesh and Saritha strangled the woman using a towel and smothered her to death before taking away her five sovereign gold chain and earstuds. Saritha then informed her husband Baskar, who was away at work. Initially, they decided to bury Rajammal's body behind their house, but decided against it after they watched a TV show that telecast how the police crackdown a three-year old murder in Villupuram.

On Sunday night, Baskar and Mahesh wrapped Rajammal's body in a gunny bag and took it to Sengadu village near Thiruperumbudhur on a scooty. They dumped the body in the bushes, doused petrol and set it on fire.

Rajammal's husband Jayaseelan had died due to illness several years ago. Their son Daniel, a businessman in Purasawalkam, tried to reach his mother and inquired with the neighbours. Meanwhile, Thiruperumbudhur police teams narrowed down on Baskar and Saritha after some villagers had told police that they saw the old woman entering Saritha's house on Sunday afternoon. The police took Daniel to the morgue in the government hospital in Tiruvallur, where he identified his mother's body.

Baskar and Saritha were arrested after they confessed the murder. "We also arrested the boy," said Thiruperunbudhur police inspector M Ramamurthy. Police recovered the stolen gold chain and earstuds from Baskar's house and seized Baskar's scooty. Mahesh will sent to the juvenile home soon, he said.

On Monday morning, police recovered the charred body of a woman in Sengadu near Thiruperumbudhur. Based on the complaint of the village administrative officer (VAO) Amsavalli, police registered a case and arrested three accused.



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May 10,2020

Mumbai, May 10: A 32-year old man, running a bakery here has been arrested for alleged promotion of products using a tagline that said his firm does not employ Muslims, police said on Sunday.

The man, who is also selling his products online had allegedly said "made by Jains on orders, no Muslim staff" for promotion purposes in his WhatApp group.

A complaint was lodged against him saying the words depicted Muslims in a bad light and Mambalam police registered a case and arrested him, a release said adding a probe was on.

Recently, a man was arrested in Mumbai after he allegedly refused to collect groceries he had ordered online since the delivery person was a Muslim.

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May 28,2020

Mumbai, May 28: Twenty four doctors and three others staying in a south Mumbai hotel were rescued after a major fire broke out in the five-storey building, officials said on Thursday.

The BMC has arranged temporary accommodation for emergency and essential service staffers, including doctors and nurses, in various hotels and lodges in the city due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This hotel is one such facility.

The fire broke out at Hotel Fortune near Metro Cinema late Wednesday night and was brought under control after nearly three hours early Thursday, fire brigade officials said.

“The fire spread from the first to the third floor of the hotel, a fire brigade official told PTI. It was a level-2 fire and eight fire engines were rushed to the spot, he added.

The fire was confined to the electric wiring and cables in the electrical duct, false ceiling in the lobby and the common passages on the first, second and third floors of the hotel, he said.

The 24 rescued were resident doctors at a local hospital who were provided temporary accommodation in the hotel, while the three others were guests of the hotel, he said.

The fire broke out at 11 am and wasbrought under control at 1.40 am, the official said. Cooling operation is underway at the hotel, he added.

Five doctors were rescued using fire brigade ladders and breathing apparatus sets, the official said.

The cause of the blaze is not yet known, the fire brigade official said.

On April 21, a major fire broke out in a lodging room of Hotel Ripon near Mumbai Central, which was being used as a quarantine facility by the civic body.

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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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