SEARCH FOR MURDER ACCUSSED "ON"

CHENNAI: Police have intensified the search for the accused in the murder of G. Suresh Kumar, a gold jewellery commission agent, whose body parts were found in three different places in the city on Sunday. The head of the victim is yet to be found.Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said that the police had a couple of leads that they were pursuing. The way the murder had been committed had made the police suspect that the motive could be more personal and not just mere business rivalry.

Referring to two other unsolved murder cases in the K.K. Nagar and Ashok Nagar areas Mr. Rajendran told media persons that the police were close to solving one of the cases. He said details would be made public in the next 10 days.

In one of the incidents, a motorcycle-borne two-member gang attacked a 55-year-old man, D. Sankaran in K.K. Nagar in the first week of May. The victim died on the spot.

In another case, a retired government official, his wife and their maid were found murdered in their residence in Ashok Nagar recently.

To a question on the effectiveness of night patrolling he said, some of the police force had been withdrawn to oversee the law and order following the agitation over Sri Lankan Tamil issue but now the force was being brought back to take up patrolling.

A New report says, suresh kumar was probably murdered for a lump of 30 lakh worth gold, that was given to suresh kumar by his friend as a part of their business. kundas from south india may be involved inthe case, a report suggest.

HATS OFF CHENNAI POLICE, TEMPLE ROBBERY CASE -A SUCCESS

“Prem Singh, the watchman who is among the nine persons absconding, was also wanted in a robbery case in Mumbai”

Six persons, all of them Nepal nationals, were arrested and remanded to custody on Sunday in connection with the murder of a priest and robbery in a Jain temple in Sowcarpet on May 28. Police are searching for nine other persons.
Four of the six arrested, including a woman, were said to be ‘receivers’ of the stolen property. A total of 9.225 kg of gold items, worth about Rs.1.20 crore, was recovered from them.
Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran, who briefed mediapersons on Monday, said that all those involved in the crime were related to one another. The man who plotted the crime, a resident of Phoolwari village in Kailali district of Nepal, is absconding.
Police said Bhadur Singh alias Kallani Bahadur had been appointed watchman at the temple around two-and-half years ago. On May 12 he left for Nepal, stating that a relative was ill. He recommended Prem Singh, a person from his village, for the post. On the day of the incident, 11 persons entered the temple at different points in time just before it was closed for the day. While nine of the accused hid in the watchman’s room inside the temple, two others stood guard outside the temple.
Around 1 a.m., the accused attacked and tied up the priests, Himmatmal and Bharat Singh, who were sleeping on the first floor, broke open the store room and stole the jewellery. They returned to the watchman’s room and divided the booty into three parts.
While Himmatmal died following the attack, Mr. Bharat Singh raised an alarm by knocking on the wooden door, which awakened his mother and nephew living on the ground floor. On hearing the alarm, the gang fled leaving behind a part of the jewellery.Breakthrough
Police said a breakthrough was achieved when they arrested Ram Singh alias Ram Bahadhur Kohli and Suraj at the Rasappa Chetty Street-Walltax Road junction on Sunday.
Based on the information given by them, the police apprehended Ram Singh’s wife Seethadevi, Sher Bahadur, Ramesh and Amar from Semmenchery in Thoraipakkam.
Interrogation of the arrested persons revealed that Bahadur had conspired to steal the jewellery for nearly six months and had introduced several of his relatives to businessmen in the area and in other parts of the city.
The city police formed nine special teams that have been sent to Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Nepal, Mr. Rajendran added.
Efforts are on to arrest Bahadur with the aid of the Indian embassy in Nepal.
Police believe that the arrest of the others would provide them information about the rest of the stolen valuables.
The Commissioner said that Prem Singh, the watchman who is among the nine persons absconding, was also wanted in a robbery case in Mumbai.

SOME ATTACKS ON INDIANS ARE RACIAL, AUSSIE COP ADMITS

SYDNEY: The police chief of Australia's Victoria state on Tuesday admitted that some of the attacks on Indian students in this country are "racially motivated" - as maintained by the victims of a series of crimes.

The southeastern state' chief commissioner of police Simon Overland told the media in Victoria's capital Melbourne that some of the robbery attacks are "racially motivated" and others are "opportunistic". "Whatever the motivation, they (the attacks) are not okay. violence is not okay, being robbed is not okay," he said. He also said that there is no place for racism in the community, according to the transcript of Overland's informal meet and greet with 50 members of Melbourne's multilingual media. In the past one month, there have been at least 11 attacks on Indian students, leading to an outrage in India. Representatives of about 90,000 Indians studying here took out a protest march in Sydney on Sunday. Asked if police used excessive force in breaking up a protest by Indian students in Melbourne last weekend, Overland said he watched from the police operations centre and believed that what he saw was entirely appropriate. He said there was some force used after the students were given the opportunity for the last time to leave the traffic intersection and they refused to do so. He said students were moved on because the intersection needed to be cleared for peak-hour traffic. Asked why students were asked to "move on", Overland said they had made their point. Overland said police have been working on the issue of violence for 18 months with Indian students and universities, and are aware that this is a problem. Police in Victoria are taking various initiatives to strengthen ties with culturally diverse communities, including Indians, he said. "There is a shared responsibility between police and the media to provide important messages to the public and to have an open dialogue to understand where the other is coming from, and finding suitable solutions to problems," Overland said. Earlier, Overland wrote in the Herald Sun: "Some of these crimes are racially motivated; however I also believe that many of the robberies and other crimes of violence are simply opportunistic." He also urged the Indian community to continue to work with police to find an effective and sustainable solution to the series of crimes. According to Victoria police officials, in 2007-08, there were 36,765 victims of crimes such as robberies and assaults in the state, of which 24,260 were Caucasian victims and 1,447 victims were people of Indian origin. Police say 30% of assaults in Melbourne's western suburbs are against Indians, and it is a disproportionate figure in a city of nearly four million people.

SEHWAG OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT

There has been a high drama at Nottingham, where India is scheduled to play its final league encounter against Ireland on Wednesday, when Indian team skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni clearly denied to answer any questions related to Virender Sehwag's injury.

"I am not going to answer any questions related to players' fitness", said Dhoni when asked about latest on Sehwag's injured shoulder Dhoni and media contingent engage in a verbal duel over Sehwag's issue when he was repeatedly asked by the media over Virender Sehwag. Dhoni clearly stated that any information related to Sehwag will come up to you through BCCI. Meanwhile the BCCI named Sehwag's Delhi Daredevils' teammate Dinesh Karthik as his replacement in India's 15-member squad after he has been ruled out of the Twenty20 World Cup with a shoulder injury. D Karthik is expected to arrive in London ahead of India's first Super Eights match against the West Indies at Lord's on Friday. Sehwag had sustained the injury during the Indian Premier League and missed both the warm-up matches and the game against Bangladesh. Sehwag did come to the nets and batted for only 12 balls before retiring to the dressing room earlier in the day. He also complained about his recurrent pain in the right shoulder to captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coach Gary Kirsten. Sehwag may need a surgery to his injured shoulder and will return home after consulting medical experts in England, the BCCI said.