Patient brutally murdered in Chennai hospital
A 40-year-old patient was brutally murdered in front of his son by a seven-member gang at the Rajiv Gandhi General Government Hospital in Chennai last week.
Prakash, implicated in four murders, was admitted in the general ward of the hospital and was under treatment for hypertension.
His teenage son Dinesh and other patients were getting ready to sleep when a masked gang carrying knives entered and held Prakash down. Five men stabbed him on the neck, arms and legs. Dinesh tried to stop them and shouted for help but the nurses and ward boys fled.
When the gang left, doctors tried to revive Prakash, who was bleeding profusely but he died on the operating table.
The next day, the gang led by Jyothilingam, Prakash’s business rival, surrendered to the police.
North Chennai has become notorious for gang wars and at least 10 people have been murdered by rival groups in the past several months.
Sundaram units raided over software row
Following a Madras High Court directive on a petition from the Mumbai cyber crime cell, raids were conducted at the offices of Sundaram BNP Paribas Home Finances and Sundaram Infotech Solutions, subsidiaries of auto major TVS, on Whites Road in Chennai last week.
The case relates to a complaint filed by Virendra Singh, owner of Kensoft Infotech, who had supplied home finance software to Sundaram in 1992. Singh claimed Sundaram’s management had tampered with and re-engineered the software to suit their needs without his permission. They also used the software beyond its validity of seven years and refused to pay for renewal claiming copyright.
Singh filed a case under Intellectual Property Infringement (IPR) act with the Mumbai police in 2010.
The IPR cell of the Mumbai police claimed the raid was important as Indian laws had not been properly formulated for software business and information technology companies.
Robber caught with stolen bike
The Chennai police have arrested a robber who had stolen nearly 180 sovereigns of gold and silver, cash, cars and bikes since 2010 last week.
Mohan was caught with a stolen bike during a routine vehicle check.
Police said Mohan used to operate alone and usually chose locked houses in the suburbs. He would park his bike at the Tambaram railway station and take a share auto to his targeted area. He would wait until midnight and scale the compound wall to get into the house.
He would cover the doors and windows with curtains and cloth, switch on lights, finish robbing and wait until dawn to lock up and leave the house. Then he would join the early morning commuters to reach Tambaram and leave on his bike.
Fire at ATC tower hits many flights
The Chennai international airport was shut down for two-and-half hours due to a fire at the air traffic control (ATC) tower at Meenambakkam last week.
Many flights including four on the international sector were diverted to Bangalore and hundreds had to be evacuated.
Airport staff said the batteries in the power back-up system of a recently bought device had burst causing the fire on the tower’s third floor. Though the fire was doused immediately, the smoke and fumes entered the air conditioner ducts and spread over the tower forcing shutdown of all apparatus.
Normality was restored in stages as rescue teams worked to disperse the choking smoke.