A 30-year-old man was arrested for the April 6 murder of a nurse in his neighbourhood.
Her body was found in a gunny bag at a vacant plot near the Koyambedu vegetable market in Chennai.
The victim, Velvizhi, lived near Ajith and his wife Mahalakshmi’s flat at Choolaimedu area. Mahalakshmi and Velvizhi worked as nurses at a homecare centre, while Ajith was a driver in the same company. However he lost his job but pretended that he had got another job.
When Mahalakshmi asked for his salary, he visited Velvizhi and tried to borrow money and her gold chain but she refused. An angry Ajith strangulated Velvizhi and tied her body in a sack that he later transported to Koyambedu in an auto-rickshaw. He pawned the chain, escaped to Kerala and returned only after a police summons.
Police acted based on the complaint of Velvizhi’s father. The body was later recovered.
In a similar incident, Alam Bhai, a mason from Kolkatta, was arrested for murdering an elderly couple at their third-floor apartment at Taramani also in Chennai. He had reportedly attacked them for payment arrears. The couple owned several properties and had three adult children who lived in other parts of Chennai.
Teenager rewarded for catching thief
In a rare gesture, a 17-year-old boy was rewarded for catching a thief, who ran away after snatching a gold chain from a doctor at Anna Nagar in Chennai last week.
Surya was standing outside a shop, when a heavy built man came running out of Dr Amutha’s clinic nearby. The doctor also followed shouting that the man had stolen her chain. Surya chased the man for several yards before tripping him up. As he fell, Surya and his friend pinned him to the ground and got the chain back.
The man was handed over to police with the help of passersby. Hearing of the incident, Police Commissioner A K Vishwanathan called Surya and gave cash reward.
Bike tour for girls’ education
Seventeen Finnish bikers began their road tour through 17 countries to advocate rural girls’ education from Kanchipuram, about 70km from Chennai this week.
The team will pass through Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh to enter Nepal. From there they will enter China, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia and Estonia to reach Finland. They plan to complete this tour within 65 days.
The tour sponsored by Finland’s Peter Pan Bike and Chennai’s SFA Motorcyle Rental was flagged off by Tamil Nadu Tourism Minister Vellamandi Natarajan and Transport Minister M R Vijayabhaskar.
Boy dies after fall in mall
A 10-year-old boy died when the strap of his bag got caught in the moving hand rail of an escalator at the multi-storied Express Mall on Mount Road in Chennai last week.
Naveen reportedly lost his balance and fell from the escalator down two floors. He sustained head injuries and died four days later at the government hospital.
His father, an auto-rikshaw driver, blamed the mall authorities for lax security. However the mall management claimed that the boy had been taking pictures on his mobile phone that snagged his shoulder strap.
Investigations are underway.
Tamil Nadu
