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Sleuths of directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) on Wednesday conducted searches at six locations of an assistant in rural development and panchayat raj department as well as his family members in Pudukottai and unearthed assets worth over Rs 15 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income.

A 43-year-old man committed suicide by hanging due to the fear of getting arrested for stabbing his 47-year-old sister-in-law over a financial dispute in a village near Lalgudi on Wednesday.

A mechanical engineer from Tamil Nadu was arrested in Delhi for allegedly duping a Japanese professor, after becoming involved with a Chinese cybercrime syndicate in Cambodia. Promised easy money, he had managed bank accounts used in the cyber operations before striking out on his own.

In a poignant incident, a man aged about 45 years performed the funeral rites of his mother by taking her dead body in a wheelchair due to her skin disease.

The Trichy Mahila Court on Friday sentenced a 27-year-old man to life imprisonment on charges of dowry harassment and abetting the suicide of his wife in 2010.

A head constable from Koyambedu police station has been suspended for attacking a daily wage worker at Koyambedu market on Saturday night.

A 32-year-old man who kept the police on tenterhooks for the past eight months by sending bomb threat letters to various sensitive places in and around the city was arrested on Sunday.

The body of a 44 year old man who was found hanging in the restroom of the Samayapuram police station was handed over to his family members after a forensic team performed the postmortem at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) in Trichy on Tuesday.

A 44-year-old man, who was nabbed in connection with a mobile snatching incident, was found dead in a restroom at the Samayapuram police station in Trichy district on Monday.The deceased has been identified as A Muruganandham of Oriyur in Ariyalur district.

The body of a fisherman, who fell into the sea while fishing off Dhanushkodi, was today found washed ashore at Oorkavalturai coast in Jaffna, officials here said.

The city of Madurai is facing a peculiar law and order issue with a war between gangs that is leading to a chain of murders one after another as retaliation and revenge, the Madras high court has observed.

When the matter was taken to the Supreme Court, it suggested a meeting between judicial officers and advocates to sort out the issue amicably.

The Madras high court on Tuesday sent PMK leader Dr S Ramadoss’ brother S Seenivasan, 65, arrested in connection with the murder of Muruganandham of Tindivanam in 2006, to the custody of the CBI for one day.

CBI has questioned Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S Ramadoss and his son, former Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, in connection with the murder of a relative of Tamil Nadu minister for Commercial taxes C Ve Shanmugam, sources said