The Tiruttani police have arrested four persons, including a 17-year-old boy, in connection with the murder of a 41-year-old petty shop owner in Tiruttani.

D. Yuvaraj was hacked to death by a masked gang near Periyar Nagar on Sunday in the presence of his wife and daughter. The arrested were identified as Sushil, 24, Bhuvanesh, 21, and Harish, 19. The police said Sushil had several cases, including for robbery and attempt to murder, against him.

The police said the juvenile allegedly had one-sided feelings for Yuvaraj’s daughter. The police suspect the attack may have happened in retaliation to a complaint Yuvaraj had lodged after his daughter was allegedly threatened by Sushil and his friends over her friendship with a 19-year-old college student from Palvedu. Based on the complaint, the police arrested Sushil’s friends Lawrence and Roshi.

The Mylapore police are on the lookout for a three-member gang that hacked to death a youth from Velachery on Veerabadran Street in Mylapore on Monday night.

The deceased was identified as Sathyaseelan, 21, of Balaji Nagar. A school dropout, he worked as an air-conditioner mechanic and had lived in Mylapore for three years. The police said Sathyaseelan had a history of substance abuse, and his family had arranged treatment for him at a de-addiction centre. The family had also moved from Mylapore to Velachery.

Sathyaseelan frequently visited his friend Sabari in Mylapore. When he and his friends were on Veerabadran Street on Monday night, three unidentified men arrived on motorcycles, the police said. They allegedly attacked Sathyaseelan him with knives. When he tried to flee, the gang gave chase and assaulted him, leaving his critically injured. The assailants then fled the spot. Sathyaseelan was rushed to the Government Royapettah Hospital, where he died of injuries.

The police have registered a case and formed special teams to identify and arrest the suspects. They are also investigating the motive behind the murder.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 26-year-old man in Lal Bagh, the police said on Sunday. They were nabbed after a manhunt was launched across Delhi and Uttarakhand covering around 550 km.

The accused, Aman alias Mulla, 26, and Anuj alias Moni, 20, were arrested near Chappar toll plaza in Uttarakhand while travelling in a rented car.

According to the police, they received calls about a stabbing and firing incident in Lal Bagh at 11.30 p.m. on August 12. The victim was taken to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival. He had firearm injuries, with entry and exit wounds in the abdomen and back, and a stab injury on his back.

According to an eyewitness, he and the victim had gone to a nearby shop when they encountered Mr. Aman, an alleged member of the Sahib Salmani Brother Gang, and another man.

An altercation broke out and the two men allegedly threatened them before leaving. The police said the accused returned when the two were on their way back and opened fire. The eyewitness escaped while the victim was shot and stabbed, the police said.

A dedicated team was formed to trace the accused. During the investigation, Mr. Anuj was also identified as a suspect. He was wanted in connection with another murder case lodged at the Jahangirpuri police station, the police said. Intelligence inputs indicated that the accused had moved towards Haridwar, but they kept changing their location.

Officers correlated technical inputs with field intelligence and followed their movement. They were intercepted near the Chappar toll plaza after covering 550 km, the police said.

Mr. Aman, a resident of Lal Bagh, has six criminal cases against him while Mr. Anuj has been involved in 15 cases, the police said.

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 Delhi court on Sunday remanded dermatologist Manish Gupta in judicial custody for 14 days in connection with the murder of his domestic help at his East of Kailash residence.

Delhi Police on Friday sought two days’ custody of Mr. Gupta to recover the clothes worn during the offence and gather additional evidence.

Allowing the petition, the court directed the police to conduct the accused’s medical examination and produce him before the Duty Magistrate after the custody period.

On completion of the two-day police remand, Mr. Gupta was sent to judicial custody.

The case came to light on June 18 when Mr. Gupta was found beside the body of Mina Haldar, 58, at his residence. A neighbour had alerted the police after noticing her lying in a pool of blood.

According to the police, Mr. Gupta had admitted to the killing during the initial inquiry.

Police said a bat allegedly used to bludgeon the house help and a knife suspected to have been used to slit her throat were recovered from the house. Haldar, a native of Kolkata, had worked for the family for 16 years.

New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Friday took suo motu cognisance of reports of the alleged murder of a Delhi University assistant professor, who was found dead at her residence in Vasundhara Enclave on Thursday. 

The commission wrote to the Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golchha, seeking immediate, stringent and time-bound action in the case. It also sought a detailed action taken report (ATR) within seven days.  

According to the NCW, the ATR should include details of the FIR, the status of the investigation, forensic and post-mortem findings, analysis of CCTV footage, call detail records and other digital evidence, as well as efforts to identify, trace and apprehend the perpetrator.  

Police said a call was received at 2.35 p.m. on Thursday at the New Ashok Nagar police station from a woman who reported that her sister had been murdered and that her body was lying inside her flat in Vasundhara Enclave. A case was registered under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to murder, and the body was sent for post-mortem examination.  

The deceased was identified as Devosmita Paul, Assistant Professor at Shivaji College.  

In a statement, the NCW stated it has also “sought details on the examination of all possible suspects and others known to the victim, and information on measures being taken to strengthen the safety and security of women living alone in the national capital”. 

The mother of the 10-year-old girl, who was sexually assaulted and murdered near Coimbatore, alleged on Sunday (May 24, 2026) that her husband took the child’s body to his native place in Salem and cremated it without her consent or allowing her to see the mortal remains.

The woman, who spoke to mediapersons in Coimbatore in the evening, said she decided not to accept her daughter’s body until “justice is served”. However, it was released from the morgue in Coimbatore after her husband’s signature was obtained, she said.

Police action sought

“They did not show me the body and left ESI Hospital premises through the back gate. Though we tried to follow the ambulance to have a glimpse of the body, they left the spot. Though I went to his native place in Salem, they cremated the body without even showing me her face,” she alleged, demanding police action against her husband and relatives.

Responding to social media posts and allegations that she was under the influence of alcohol and was unconscious when the main accused, K. Karthi, 33, abducted her daughter from the neighbourhood at Pallapalayam near Sulur on the evening of May 21, the woman said she had consumed a soft drink that her husband had kept in the refrigerator. She suspected that alcohol was mixed in it.

“I drank the cold drink from the refrigerator… I lost consciousness after consuming it,” said the woman, adding that no one should spread slander against her in her current situation.

The woman also denied any acquaintance with Karthi as alleged by certain people on social media. She said she came to know of him only after his arrest, and no one allowed her to explain her side.

Karthi, who allegedly suffered fractures on the right arm and leg while attempting to escape from the police, was shifted to the prisoners’ ward from the intensive care unit of a hospital.

Relief handed over

Earlier, Minister for Transport A. Vijay Tamilan Parthiban and Minister for Backward Classes Welfare V. Sampath Kumar visited the girl’s native place in Mettur taluk of Salem district and handed over a relief assistance of ₹7 lakh to the family.

According to an official release, the relief was provided on behalf of the Department of Children Welfare and Special Services following directions from the Madras High Court. Collector K. Elambahavath, Superintendent of Police Gautam Goyal, and other officials were present.

Charred remains of two men were found on the Krishnagiri to Rayakottai road in Alapatty panchayat in Krishnagiri district on Monday (May 11, 2026). The bodies of the two victims aged around mid-30s, were found half a kilometre apart near Vepalampatty. .

The victims are suspected to have been murdered, their bodies set ablaze and the charred remains were wrapped in a blanket and thrown at the scene. The second body was found half-a-kilometre from the site of the first body, similarly murdered and mutilated by burns and wrapped in a blanket before being discarded.

A team led by Superintendent of Police P. Thangadurai, and Deputy Inspector General of Police, Salem, Santhosh Hadimani inspected the site where the bodies were found.

Five special teams have been formed to investigate the murders.