Three youth who attacked a person and robbed him of cash were arrested here on Friday evening (September 18, 2026).

According to the police, Venkatesan, a resident of Vellakalpatti near Konganapuram, became acquainted with three persons: M. Karthi (23), a resident of Poolampatti; M. Veerappan (25), a resident of Vellari Velli; and M. Praveen Kumar (20), a resident of Edappadi via social media. All three persons were construction workers.

The trio asked Venkatesan to meet them near the burial ground at Poolampatti. On Wednesday night (September 16, 2026), when he went to the spot, the trio attacked him and robbed him of ₹2,000 and a silver chain. The Poolampatti police registered a case, and on Friday evening, arrested the trio and remanded them in prison.

Nearly a month after a woman was murdered in Chennai and her dismembered body parts were found inside an abandoned trolley bag on board the Tamil Nadu Express at Agra Cantonment, the Guduvanchery police have arrested a couple from Manipur in the case.

The arrested — Manik Uddin Laskar and Bhagabati Majhi — are being brought to Chennai after obtaining a prisoner of transit warrant from the judicial magistrate of Jirbham district in the northeastern State. A senior officer of the Tambaram Police Commissionerate said the team was expected to reach Chennai on Sunday night. “Only after the suspects are brought to the city and interrogated the entire the murder plot could be found,” the officer said.

The police had arrested the couple on Saturday in connection with the murder of a 38-year-old woman in Guduvanchery, whose decomposed and dismembered body parts were found stuffed inside a trolley bag aboard the Chennai-New Delhi Tamil Nadu Express at Agra earlier this month. While Laskar hails from Dakshin Krishnapur, Sonabarighat, in Assam’s Cachar district his wife Bhagabati Majhi is from Odisha.

The murder came to light on August 5, when the body was found in the rear general compartment of the Tamil Nadu Express in Agra. The Agra Railway Police launched an investigation.

After being informed, the Government Railway Police at the Chennai Central railway station and the Railway Protection Force examined CCTV footage from Platform 4 and spotted a man and a woman carrying a suspicious trolley bag and boarding the train. Their movements led investigators to Guduvanchery, where they identified a rented house on Masuthi Street in which the couple had allegedly been staying with another woman. The deceased was later identified as Hayathun Nisha, 38, wife of Jahhur Khan and a native of Jagatsinghpur in Odisha. She stayed in Guduvanchery and worked at a private firm.

The police found Laskar and Bhagabati had gone missing. During the investigation, the police also recovered body parts from a cooking vessel on the premises. Tambaram City Police Commissioner Prem Anand Sinha formed a special team to trace the suspects. A senior police officer said the team travelled to a remote and difficult-to-access area of Manipur in search of Laskar. The team stayed in the area for more than a week and tracked his movements before locating him. “The area was remote, we could not move around much during the day, and it was also raining there. The team camped for more than a week and eventually traced the accused,” the officer said.

The police said the motive for the murder would be established only after the couple was brought to Tambaram and questioned.

The Poonamallee All-Women Police on Monday arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl, who was playing outside her house in Poonamallee on Sunday. Police sources said the arrested was identified as R. Saravanan of Kattupakkam, a load van driver. He was from the same locality as the victim. Saravanan allegedly abducted the girl under the pretext of getting her chocolates from a shop nearby and took her to a nearby cremation ground, where he committed the offence. Based on a complaint lodged by the girl’s mother, the police registered a case under the POCSO Act and arrested Saravanan. He was remanded in judicial custody.

A convicted prisoner who escaped from the Salem Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College and Hospital earlier this month was apprehended by the Salem City Police after a 13-day search operation.

Police said Mohammed Hussain of Adhirampattinam in Thanjavur district is involved in 32 criminal cases, including robbery, dacoity and offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. He has been convicted in 12 cases, including a life imprisonment sentence awarded by a Special Court in Tiruchi in a POCSO case.

According to the police, Hussain was recently transferred from the Central Prison in Tiruchi to the Salem Central Prison on administrative grounds. He was admitted to the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College and Hospital on April 28 after complaining of persistent stomach pain while lodged in prison.

Police said that during treatment, he allegedly planned his escape and absconded from the hospital on the night of May 9 by pretending to be seriously ill. Following the incident, a special team was formed to trace him. The police team conducted searches at various locations, analysed available data and interrogated suspects across the State. Based on the investigation, Hussain was traced and arrested at Virudhunagar on Friday (May 22, 2026). He was later remanded in judicial custody, police added.

The Tambaram City Cyber Crime Wing has arrested a man in Telangana for allegedly creating fake social media accounts using a woman’s private photographs and subjecting her to online harassment.

The police said a woman from West Tambaram lodged a complaint stating that her private photographs had been misused to create fake Instagram and Telegram accounts, which led to her receiving unwanted phone calls and being harassed. Based on the complaint, the police registered a case and launched an investigation.

Acting on the instructions of Tambaram City Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar, a special team, led by Sub-Inspector Ramachandran, was formed. During the investigation, the police analysed digital evidence obtained from Instagram and Telegram and identified the accused as Sivaprakash, a native of Thogamalai in Karur district and a friend of the complainant.

Further inquiries revealed that the accused lived in Shamshabad in Telangana. The team travelled there and secured him. The police said interrogation revealed that the accused allegedly had a one-sided love for the complainant and created the fake accounts in an attempt to gain her sympathy and emotionally manipulate her.

The accused was later produced before a court and remanded in judicial custody. The police seized the mobile phone allegedly used in the offence.

The Anthiyur police on Tuesday (May 19, 2026) arrested a 19-year-old college student from Ulundurpet in Villupuram district on charges of abetment of suicide of a Plus One student in Anthiyur last month.

The accused was identified as M. Satheesh, a B.Sc. Computer Science student of a private college in Ulundurpet, who was allegedly responsible for the death of M. Dharani, 16-year-old girl from Thavittupalayam in Anthiyur taluk on April 22, 2026. Police said the two became acquainted through social media.

The girl’s parents on Monday (May 18, 2026) submitted a petition to the district administration alleging inaction on the part of the police in arresting the accused for 26 days. They claimed that he had allegedly harassed the girl and threatened her father over the phone. The girl had reportedly told her parents that the youth, with whom she had allegedly been in a relationship for the past four months, had threatened to misuse photographs taken earlier. The girl later ended her life, and her father alleged that the delay in police action had caused distress to the family.

Following the petition submitted by the girl’s parents, the district police formed a special team and nabbed the accused at Keel Thaniyalampattu village under the limits of the Thiruvennainallur police station in Villupuram district.

In a press release, the district police claimed that the accused had switched off his mobile phone and had been in hiding for five weeks, making it difficult to trace him. However, based on continuous efforts and specific information, the accused was secured on Monday night and brought to the Anthiyur police station.

In a handwritten note reportedly left by the girl, she stated that Satheesh had forced her to accept his proposal, following which she agreed to the relationship. She further stated that when she expressed reluctance to continue the relationship, he insisted on meeting her and she met him in Bhavani. According to the note, when she refused to take photographs with him, he assaulted her. The girl also alleged that when she sought to end the relationship, he abused her in foul language and threatened to misuse the photographs, which forced her to take the extreme step.

(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the State’s health helpline (104) and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline (044-2464 0050).