The court acted on the complaint of N Ramachandran, who claimed that he had lent Deepa Rs10mn through her driver, in the hope of getting a senior post in her fledgling political party last year.
However six months later, when nothing happened, Ramachandran demanded refund. He then claimed that the duo began threatening him.
Deepa is also involved in another police case, when a conman posing as an income tax official entered her home for a ‘raid’ recently. He escaped after she informed police, but surrendered the following day. Prabhakaran claimed that he had been hired by Deepa’s husband Madhavan, who had promised him a role in a film.
Girl in freak accident recovering
Dhanyasri, four, who sustained serious fractures when a man fell on her from a balcony at Thoraippakam area in Chennai on January 28 is now recovering at a hospital in Tondiarpet.
“She was deeply comatose when she was brought in, she had suffered a diffuse axonal brain injury with fractures in her spine and ankle. We performed an emergency decompression surgery and removed her skull bone to be frozen. It will be grafted after two months. At present she wears a soft helmet,” doctors said.
Now she is able to sit up, recognise her parents and is slowly getting back her memory. Donations in cash and kind have poured in for Dhanyasri’s treatment.
Meanwhile in Madurai, a teenage schoolgirl sustained third degree burns when a man set her afire over spurned love at Achampatti village. She is admitted at the Government Rajaji Hospital, while search is on for the man.
Gangster’s chopped head thrown at bus stand
Masked men on bikes threw a human head wrapped in a plastic bag in the busy Kattankulathur bus stand area in suburban Chennai last week.
Shocked passersby informed the police. Police identified the head as that of Balaji, a gangster wanted for the murder of local DMK politician Ravishankar. Police suspect that it was a revenge killing from Ravishankar’s gang.
Balaji’s torso was recovered from the Manimangalam forest several kilometres outside the city. The body parts have been sent for autopsy and search is on for the culprits.
Escaped criminal surrenders
Binu Pachappan, a wanted criminal who escaped from his February 7 birthday party at a factory shed in Chennai, surrendered at the Ambattur police station last week.
He reportedly walked into the station, knelt and wept saying he had come for forgiveness and said he had not been criminally involved for two years due to severe diabetes.
On his birthday, police managed to arrest 75 gangsters wanted in rape, robbery and murder cases. Binu is accused in 28 criminal cases and had been evading arrest for two years.
Born in Malappuram in Kerala, he worked in Chennai at a tea stall before getting into crime.
Meanwhile police said they had cornered Binu into surrendering after blocking all his escape routes out of Chennai.
55 cars take part in heritage rally
The Madras Heritage Motoring Club organised the annual heritage car rally between Chennai and Puducherry on February 11.
Over 55 heritage cars including Chevrolets, Ambassadors, Fords, Volkswagens, Mercedes and others took part.