CHENNAI: Police on Wednesday shot one of two chain-snatchers they had arrested from Chennai airport on Tuesday in a dramatic fashion, pulling one off a plane about to leave for Hyderabad and picking up the other from a queue to board a flight to Mumbai.Chennai city police commissioner A Arun said Jaffer Gulam Hussain Irani,…
KOLKATA/MALDA: A 25-year-old murder accused, absconding after shooting two policemen escorting him to jail on Wednesday, was shot dead in an encounter while trying to flee to Bangladesh near the border in Chopra in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur on Saturday morning.Sajjak Alam, being escorted back to Raiganj prison from an Islampur court where he was…
CHENNAI: History-sheeter ‘Kakkathope’ Balaji was killed in police encounter near Vyasarpadi Jeeva railway station, in North Chennai.The notorious gangster, Balaji alias ‘Kakkathope’ 40, was wanted in over 40 criminal cases, including extortion and murder.A police team, led by Inspector Buhari, tracked Balaji down to the B&C quarters on early Wednesday. When officers attempted to apprehend…
