CHENNAI: An initiative by the city police to enhance security and prevent crimes against senior citizens who live alone has received an enthusiastic response. Following a spurt in crimes targeting the elderly, City Police Commissioner J K Tripathy hammered out a special plan. Senior citizens who are 'home alone' were requested to register with the police so that the cops could enhance security measures. In the last four months, 850...
08:10 AM, May 28, 2012
Bangalore: Sasikala Natarajan, estranged aide and co-accused in the wealth case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday told the special court that the Chennai Police violated a court order during the raids conducted at the latter's residence in 1996. She was responding to a question regarding valuable watches that were seized during the raids at Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden Residence. Police had violated the court order in taking the...
05:03 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Chennai: Rejecting a plea for a CBI probe into the deaths of five persons in an alleged encounter in Chennai on February 22, Tamil Nadu police on Tuesday said investigation by a central agency is 'unwarranted' when two judicial proceedings are seized of the issue. The purported PIL 'is only duplicating proceedings' and would not serve any useful purpose, especially when both the proceedings under the XIV Metropolitan Magistrate, Chennai,...
08:05 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Chennai: One of the three police special teams investigating the case of the headless body found in a trunk on a train, will soon leave for New Delhi to gather reports and video footage of a similar case reported there. Another team will soon be travelling to places in other states where the train had travelled. Railway police said that out of the three police teams formed, one would soon...
10:06 AM, Mar 20, 2012
CHENNAI: A week after an order was issued instructing house owners to submit details of their tenants, the city police, who issued over 50,000 forms for this purpose, have received only 3,800-odd filled in applications till date. Police said they discovered that most house owners were hesitating to walk into a police station to pick up or submit the completed forms and preferred other means to make the submission. According...
08:24 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Chennai: An anonymous call stating that a bomb has been placed in a 16-storey building housing IT major Tata Consultancy Services and other business units here sent authorities into a tizzy but it turned out to be a hoax. The call was received by a staff at private power firm in the building complex in Ambattur, an industrial hub, around 0830 hrs on Friday, police said. Police and bomb squad...
04:05 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Chennai: In the first top-level administrative reshuffle, the Jayalalithaa government on Monday appointed JK Tripathy as Chennai city Police Commissioner, shunting out incumbent T Rajendran. The appointment of Tripathy, who was Additional Director General of Police, Prisons, came within hours of Jayalalithaa taking charge as Chief Minister. In her election campaign for the Assembly elections, Jayalalithaa had attacked the DMK rule over "deteriorating" law and order and a day ahead...
07:17 PM, May 16, 2011
While police officials have been named, not a single lawyers has been. ...
02:13 AM, Oct 30, 2009
Police station inside court was burnt during February 19 clash. ...
05:01 PM, Oct 29, 2009
The two were found murdered inside their home. ...
10:13 PM, Sep 26, 2009
The Chennai Police have introduced a toll free messaging number. ...
04:03 PM, Jun 30, 2009
SC lawyers have sympathised with their Chennai colleagues. ...
12:40 PM, Feb 22, 2009
District SPs have been empowered to carry out the order. ...
03:16 AM, Feb 21, 2009
All three were stabbed; jewellery missing from home. ...
03:41 PM, Nov 20, 2008
Chennai police is also giving out a list of do's and don'ts. ...
08:02 PM, Sep 25, 2008
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