Days after its inauguration, officials on Wednesday demolished the compound wall and removed a park at the Mullivaaikal Memorial, built in honour of Tamil martyrs in the war in Sri Lanka, alleging that these were constructed on encroached highway land, triggering instant protests by pro-Eelam activists.
Former India cricketer Robin Singh was on Thursday fined Rs 500 and his car impounded for allegedly violating lockdown rules in Chennai, police said. The 56-year-old former Tamil Nadu player had gone by car to purchase vegetables and was caught by local police for the violation.
The National Human Rights Commission is adopting a tough posture against illegal police actions as outlined in three cases in which big amount of monetary relief has been recommended by the panel and paid by the state governments concerned.
Police said a hunt for assailants behind Wednesday morning's firing incident at the station is underway.
While Paneerselvam had a smaller 'Y+' cover of central paramilitary commandos, Stalin had a larger 'Z+' protection.
Gagan Ajit Singh scored three minutes before the final whistle in a Super League match of the Nehru hockey tournament.
R Gopal, the editor of Tamil magazine 'Nakkheeran', who had written articles on a sex scandal involving a woman college teacher, was picked up by police from the airport before he could board a flight to Pune, officials said.
Justice A K Rajan reserved his orders on Saturday on the petition filed by the seer.
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An Indian Army jawan and a Special Police Officer allegedly committed suicide by shooting themselves with their service weapons here and in Doda district respectively, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
The move is widely seen as a fall out of the Supreme Court granting bail to Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati in the Sankararaman murder case.
Sounding a statewide alert, the Tamil Nadu police on Monday detained 96 persons and stepped up search operations across the state following the theft of 17,100 detonators used for quarrying purposes, from a private godown at Karur near Tiruchirappalli. "We are serious about the theft and are probing the matter. We have already detained 96 persons in connection with the matter," DGP K P Jain said.
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'Now the political boss decides, and the ED acts.'
