The Kollidam police have registered a case against a police constable for allegedly harassing a woman and setting fire to her car at Sankara Nagar in Kollidam Tollgate area on the outskirts of Tiruchi city recently. The case was booked on a complaint preferred by the 41-year-old woman resident of Sankara Nagar.

The police said the woman lodged a complaint on July 29 suspecting the involvement of the police constable P. Sathiyaraj, 42, attached to the Kollidam police station, in setting fire to her car that was parked in front of her house.

The woman had alleged that the constable knew her as she was an LIC agent and harassed, intimidated, and abused her after she rejected his sexual advances and did not answer his phone calls. She suspected that he was behind the incident and lodged a complaint. 

The woman had parked her car and left for Thanjavur a few days ago leaving her son at home. During her absence, a person wearing a helmet broke open the car door and set it on fire and fled the spot. The fire spread to another car parked adjacent to it. 

The incident was captured on nearby CCTV cameras. The firefighters doused the flames. Sources said the constable had not been arrested and investigation was on.

A 45-year-old man was found murdered on the northern bank of the Cauvery in Srirangam on Sunday. Police identified the deceased as Suresh of Theni district. He was found dead with an injury on his head on the river bank. 

Police sources said Suresh was a cook and was engaged in collecting and selling old papers and bottles.  During inquiry, the police learnt that a quarrel broke out between Suresh and R. Vignesh, both of whom were inebriated on Saturday evening. 

Vignesh, according to the police, hit Suresh with a stone on his head. Suresh died on the spot. The Srirangam police arrested Vignesh on Sunday and booked a case of murder against him.

A 28-year-old man was electrocuted and his friend suffered an electric shock, battling for life in Neelankarai on Saturday.  

City police said R. Ravikumar and M. Muthukumar had rented a property in Vettuvankeni of Neelankarai and were staying there for over a month.

On Saturday night, both had gone to the terrace and were consuming liquor. As both of them were talking, Ravikumar got up and went to the edge of the terrace and was gesturing something when he touched a live overhead wire passing near the terrace. Ravikumar was electrocuted instantly and Muthukumar tried to save him and also received electric shock.

Hearing their cries, nearby residents sent them to Perumbakkam Government Hospital where the doctors pronounced Ravikumar had died. 

The Neelankarai Police, on being alerted, sent the body to Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital for post-mortem examination, while his friend Muthukumar was shifted to the hospital and is undergoing treatment. 

The Washermanpet Police arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly photographing women without their knowledge and storing them on memory card.

According to the police, the case came to light after Abhishek, 31, an autorickshaw driver from Old Washermenpet, lodged a complaint. On Tuesday, while returning home in his autorickshaw, he found his acquaintance, Ernest Paul, standing in his way. When Abhishek asked him to move aside, Ernest Paul allegedly abused him and threatened to photograph the women living in his street.

Suspecting foul play, Abhishek confronted him and recovered a memory card from his pocket, after which the latter allegedly tried to flee. On checking its contents, he allegedly found several photographs of women taken in an objectionable manner.

Based on a complaint, the police arrested Ernest Paul, 29, a resident of Pensioners Lane in Tondiarpet and the memory card was seized as evidence. The accused was produced before a magistrate and remanded in judicial custody.

The K.K. Nagar police arrested a 48-year-old woman for stealing more than 60 sovereigns of gold jewellery from a businessman house on Wednesday. 

City police said Subramaniam, a resident of an apartment complex of P.T. Rajan Salai in K.K. Nagar, was operating a coffee powder business in Kumbakonam.

Mr. Subramaniam planned to deposit his gold jewellery weighing 60 sovereigns from his house into a bank locker. When he opened his bureau on Tuesday, he was shocked to find that the gold jewellery was missing. Based on a complaint filed at the K.K. Nagar police station, a probe was launched. During the investigation, the police the police suspected his housekeeper, Kala, who confessed to the theft. 

The police recovered the gold jewellery and handed it over to the owner. 

The Prohibition Enforcement Wing, Ambattur, has arrested three persons for smuggling ganja from Andhra Pradesh.

The police identified the arrested as Gokul, 25, and Muthukumaran, 22, both natives of Thanjavur, and Mustafa, 26, of Vellore. They were intercepted near the Korattur railway station during regular surveillance.

A search led to the seizure of 21 kg of ganja. An inquiry revealed that they had allegedly procured the contraband from the neighbouring State to sell in the city.

The CMBT police have arrested four persons, including a history-sheeter, for allegedly assaulting and robbing a software engineer of his laptop and mobile phones near Arumbakkam.

The accused were identified as Vignesh alias “Pallu” Vicky, 30, of Mangadu, Thirupathi, a college student, and his associates Gautham and Sanjay Kumar.

The Police said the victim, Shyam Dhan Ghoshal, 30, a native of West Bengal, was staying at a hostel in Vadapalani while working at a software company in Pudupet.

On May 5, after completing his work, Shyam visited a hotel in Egmore where he consumed alcohol. Later that night, he booked a bike taxi to return to his hostel.

The police said Shyam alighted from the bike near 100-Feet Road in Arumbakkam and was walking towards his hostel in an intoxicated state when the incident occurred. At that time, four men travelling on two motorcycles intercepted him, assaulted him and threatened him with a knife before escaping with a laptop kept in his bag and two expensive mobile phones, including an iPhone.

After recovering from the shock, Shyam realised his belongings had been stolen and lodged a complaint with the CMBT police. After checking CCTV footage from the locality, the police identified Vignesh alias “Pallu” Vicky and his associates.

A special police team later tracked down and arrested the four accused. Further inquiries revealed that Vignesh was a history-sheeter with 58 pending robbery and chain-snatching cases registered against him at various police stations.

Four contract workers fell unconscious after allegedly inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning a wastewater tank at a private factory near Sriperumbudur in Kancheepuram district on Tuesday.

The incident took place at United Industries Plastic Private Limited, located at Vengadu village.

According to police, waste generated during the manufacturing process was stored in a wastewater tank situated nearly 40 feet below ground level inside the factory premises. The tank was reportedly cleaned once a year. The police said three contract workers entered the tank, and they allegedly inhaled toxic gas and began losing consciousness inside the tank. Hearing their cries, six co-workers rushed to rescue them.

Following the rescue operation, four workers — Manikandan, Madhanraj, Vignesh, and Sridhar — were affected due to toxic gas exposure. The workers were rushed to the Sriperumbudur Government Hospital. As the condition of two workers turned critical, they were later shifted to Shri Ramachandra Medical College Hospital in Porur.

A 65-year-old woman sustained injuries after a large tree branch fell on the car she was travelling  in at Virugambakkam on Tuesday.

The police said the couple was travelling on the Kumaran Nagar Main Road when a huge branch of a roadside tree fell on the vehicle. The injured woman, identified as Lakshmi, of Saligramam, was rushed to a government hospital for treatment.

On receiving information, personnel from the Ashok Nagar Fire and Rescue Services reached the spot and removed the fallen branch from the road. The Virugambakkam Police conducted an inquiry at the scene.