Judge turns court into a wedding venueDistrict Principal Judge R Krishnamoorthy turned the premises of the integrated court complex in Vellore into a wedding venue last week when he united Sakthivel and Kalaiselvi in matrimony after the couple were forcibly separated by their families.Sources said the couple, from Karundhalakuruchi hamlet near Kallakuruchi, had got married after eloping on February 7, but their marriage was not accepted by Sakthivel’s parents, and Kalaiselvi was asked to return to her house.A distraught Kalaiselvi consumed poison the week after and was admitted to hospital. She also filed a complaint against Sakthivel and his family with the local women’s police station, leading to the arrest of Sakthivel and a case being filed at the Villupuram district court. Judge Krishnamoorthy, who was to hear the case, advised the families of the couple to accept their relationship and personally presided over the solemnisation of the marriage at a temple on the court premises and also sponsored gifts for them.CCTV camera in Mumbai spots thief in MaduraiFootage from surveillance cameras helped catch thieves in two incidents last week.In Madurai, a masked man entered the Reliance Hypermarket at Kamarajar Salai through a hole that he drilled from the back alley after the complex had shut down that night.He was busy searching the cash box, when the supermarket chain’s head office in Mumbai spotted him on their surveillance cameras. They immediately located the market and informed the Madurai staff who alerted the police. The staff and police opened the shop’s shutters which frightened the thief and he tried to escape through the back alley. However he fell and hurt his head and had to be hospitalised. In southern Nagercoil city in Kanyakumari district, a mother and daughter were caught for replicating gold jewellery with plated imitations while pretending to be customers at a leading jewellery shop. The shop’s team zeroed in on the duo after studying several footages of their surveillance cameras. Compensation for family of accident victimThe family of college professor K Ramasamy, 46, who died in a road accident in Sivakasi in 2006 has been awarded a whopping Rs5.8mn together with 7.5% annual interest by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal of the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court.The tribunal rejected the claim of the New India Assurance Company that the professor was drunk at the time of the accident, and said it had calculated the compensation on the basis of Ramasamy’s last drawn salary of Rs29,320 besides taking into account the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations that were implemented from January 1, 2006.The money will be shared by the three surviving family members - Ramasamy’s wife and two sons - in equal proportions.Tension after murder of AIADMK manTension prevailed as Meenakshisundaram, a middle-aged leader of the ruling AIADMK party was brutally murdered by a four-member gang outside his office in southern Virudhunagar city last week.The gang reportedly hid outside Meenakshisundram’s office and escaped after stabbing him even as passersby looked on. Police suspect business rivalry as Meenakshisundram was involved in real estate and fruit wholesale and was rising rapidly in the party ranks. Their guess proved correct and the gang was arrested the next day.