10-member gang held

Coimbatore: The city police have arrested a 10-member gang that attempted to murder three people in front of the special court for bomb blast cases here on Friday evening.

Police identified them as C Karuppusamy, 48, an autorickshaw driver, his son K Praveenkumar, 27, N Kameshkumar, 21, N Ajaykumar, 20, V Parthiban, 22, H Habeesh Kumar, 20, S Sheba, 19 and K Rajkumar, 24, of Ammankulam near Puliyakulam, and C Shankar, 22, of Ramanathapuram and K Sathish, 19, of Selvapuram.

The gang had attacked R Vijayakumar, 23, of Rajivgandhi Street at Nehru Nagar in Vadavalli, his brother R Kannan, 21, and his friend A Hariharan, 21, of Jothipuram near Periyanaickenpalayam to avenge the death of 23-year-old K Naveenkumar. “The trio, along with a minor boy, had stabbed Naveenkumar to death at Ammankulam in January, 2020. They came out of the Coimbatore Central Prison on conditional bail five months ago and were directed to sign at the special court for bomb blast cases daily. Naveenkumar’s father Karuppusamy, relatives and the gang members, who were friends of Naveenkumar, visited the court on Friday for witness examination. They saw the accused at the court and attacked them. Hariharan and Vijayakumar were injurie in the attack,” a police officer said.


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