Trichy police arrest 10 of murdered rowdy’s gang for plotting burglaries

TRICHY

: The city police have arrested ten youths, said to be accomplices of a murdered rowdy, for conspiring to commit burglaries in Srirangam to avenge his death, on Thursday.

The Srirangam police arrested A Rahul, 29, R Arun Kumar, 23, C Manikandan, 36,

S Selvakumar

, 21,

M Velikunjan

, 23, M Vikki, 19, B Ashok Kumar, 21, B Mathesh, 19, M Navaneetha Krishnan, 19 and K Ramkumar 21 all from Srirangam. They were remanded in judicial custody

The conspiracy was brought to light after a complaint was filed by Sivaperumal from Srirangam area. According to the FIR, the gang had sketched out a plan under the rail overbridge across

Kollidam river

in Trichy on Thursday. Sivaperumal had gone to take a bath in Kollidam River when he overheard their plan.

The FIR stated that the gang was heard saying they should avenge the murder of Chandru as people had no fear of the gang following the broad-day light murder. The gang decided they would need money to take revenge, for which they planned to burgle houses of rich people in the area.

J Chandra Mohan alias Thalavetti Chandru, 37, of Keezha Vaasal in Srirangam, was murdered by a three member gang with his head severed in front of his young daughter on the rail overbridge in Srirangam on April 28. The murderers - M Saravanan, 35, his brother M Suresh, 30 and their relative A Selvam, 24, had surrendered at the police station with the decapitated head. Previous enmity was found to be the reason for the murder.