Cuddalore: The Principal Sessions Court in Cuddalore awarded life sentence to 17 persons, all of whom are close and distance relatives, on Monday for murdering an AIADMK functionary, Thanga Janarthanan, at T Kumarapuram near Cuddalore on October 28, 2008. Since 14 of the accused hailed from T Kumarapuram, also the village of the 50-year-old deceased, a huge crowd gathered at the court premises.
When Principal Sessions judge Uthirapathy pronounced the judgment, a pall of gloom descended on the crowd with some of the relatives breaking to tears in the court campus. Later, the convicted persons were taken to the Cuddalore jail. Janarthanan was killed at midnight while he was sleeping in his house by the group that surrounded his house and gained entry by breaking open the doors. Janathanan, who was attacked with lethal weapons, died later in hospital. The men also vandalised a few houses in the locality.
The motive behind the murder was Janarthanam helping out a cable TV operator, Iyyappan of T Kumarapuram in settling a dispute with some of the convicted them. Those men are alleged to have causing disturbances to Iyyappan business when Janarthanan tried to sort out matters.
Angered over it, the group conspired to kill him. Based on a complaint filed by Janarthanans son Vignesh, police registered case against Arul(a)Aruljothi (29), Sathish (a) Sathishkumar (29), Mohan (28), Pandurangan(40), Pushpanathan (33), Devanathan,Kumar(37), Sathishkumar (28), Vijayaranga (34), Siva (a) Sivaraj (24), Dhasarathan (28), Kaliyamurthy (54), Kumar (a) Rajkumar (34), Kannan, Moscow
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Chennai: The contribution to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund to undertake cyclone 'Thane' relief work touched Rs 24,27,42,932 on Wednesday. On Wednesday alone, Rs 4.15 crore was donated by various institutions. The commissioner of Chennai Corporation and its employees parted with a day's salary. This, along with Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy's donation of Rs 3 lakh totalled Rs 1 crore. Similarly, Murugappa Group's executive president A Vellaiyan and Suzlon...
04:39 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Cuddalore: A court in Cuddalore has stayed a non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued by a lower court against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in a case relating to her filing nominations for 2001 Assembly elections. Principal Sessions Judge K Uthirapathy stayed the June 2011 order issued by the Parangipettai Judicial magistrate till January 19, 2012 even as the Supreme Court had ordered status quo in the case in 2007. The...
12:56 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday visited the cyclone devastated Cuddalore district and distributed relief materials among the affected people. "We have activated the administration to extend relief measures to the people. A sum of Rs 850 crore has been allocated for relief and restoration work," Jayalalithaa said, according to a government statement. Jayalalithaa left for Cuddalore, some 190 km from Chennai, by helicopter from the state...
08:27 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced a Rs 700 crore package to provide immediate succour to Cyclone Thane ravaged areas as authorities stepped up relief work and efforts to bring back normalcy. The amount is in addition to Rs 150 crore released for immediate relief work, including putting back in shape badly damaged infrastructure in the coastal district of Cuddalore, most devastated by the cyclone last week,...
08:36 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Cuddalore: Shrewd operators in cyclone Thane devastated Cuddalore district have cashed in on people's woes to make money, asking for exorbitant rates to bring in generators to fill water tanks and steeply charging to charge mobile phones. "It's very difficult to get generators to fill water tanks. Generator suppliers charge Rs 300 to Rs 500 to give them to us. They bring along a generator that makes your pump work...
11:10 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Cuddalore (TN): Shrewd operators in cyclone Thane devastated Cuddalore district have cashed in on people's woes to make money, asking for exorbitant rates to bring in generators to fill water tanks and steeply charging to charge mobile phones. "It's very difficult to get generators to fill water tanks. Generator suppliers charge Rs 300 to Rs 500 to give them to us. They bring along a generator that makes your pump...
11:27 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Cuddalore: Major roads blocked by uprooted trees and debris dumped by cyclone Thane in Cuddalore district and Puducherry were cleared for traffic on Sunday as relief operations intensified to restore power to the affected areas where the toll has gone up to 47. With reports of five more deaths coming from remote areas, the toll in Cuddalore has gone up to 31 including ten women and two children, District Collector...
07:56 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu welcomed 2012 with celebrations but it was a dark new year for people in Cyclone Thane-hit Cuddalore and Chidambaram districts as there was no power supply. The cyclone has killed 46 people in south India. A sizeable crowd assembled at the Marina and the Besant Nagar beaches here and flew balloons to celebrate the new year. People greeted strangers on roads and in some localities crackers were...
11:54 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Cuddalore: Cyclone Thane came and went, and claimed 42 lives alongwith. Rescue operations are on in Puducherry and other areas that bore the brunt of the storm. However, Cuddalore, the worst-hit of all, still remains without milk and electricity, two days after the storm. CNN-IBN visited Thottampattu, a village of 400 families, almost 6 km away from the coast in interior Cuddalore. Over 50 homes in the village have been...
08:01 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Rameswaram: Protests over detention of five of their colleagues in Sri Lanka and rough sea conditions under the influence of severe cyclone 'Thane' have brought a sour end to the year for the fishermen of Rameswaram in south Tamil Nadu as they could not go for fishing for several days. Fishermen in Rameswaram were cooling their heels on the shores since the beginning of the month demanding the release of...
12:28 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Chennai: Cyclone Thane dumped heavy rain and sent wind gusts up to 140 kmph after it hit the Tamil Nadu coast on Friday killing at least 33 persons and left a trail of destruction and threw life out of gear in Cuddalore district and adjacent Union Territory of Puducherry. The storm has now weakened and many people have been shifted to relief camps. The cyclonic storm however left the southern...
07:24 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Chennai: It was business as usual at the Kalpakkam atomic power plants, around 80 km from Chennai, even as cyclone Thane lashed the coastal districts affecting normal life on Friday. The two power plants of Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) located on the Kalpakkam coast were generating power as usual, though necessary precautions against the cyclone have been taken, said a senior official. "Both the units are generating 150 MW...
05:08 PM, Dec 30, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday ordered the release of Rs 150 crore towards relief and reconstruction of damaged infrastructure in the state due to cyclone 'Thane' that crossed the state coast in the morning. In a statement issued in Chennai, Jayalalithaa said, "I have ordered the immediate release of Rs 150 crore towards relief and restoration of infrastructure damaged by the cyclone. Further, district collectors, department...
04:53 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: The very severe cyclonic storm, Thane on Friday crossed the Tamil Nadu coast, leaving seven persons dead and causing extensive damage to Cuddalore and the neighbouring Union Territory of Puduchery which remained cut-off from the nearby districts of the state. Six persons died in Cuddalore in incidents of wall collapse and electrocution, officials said. A 45-year old man of Vanarampet village in Puducherry died in house collapse. Officials,...
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