Cops attacked, 6 hotel staffers held

The policemen who were attacked were identified as sub-inspectors Marudhu and Ramamoorthy, and Grade I constable Rajasekaran. All three are attached to Triplicane Police Station. 

According to the police, the three policemen were on their night patrol at 1 am on Wednesday when they spotted Hotel Buhari and New Sangam hotel on Anna Salai operating. They directed the staff of the hotels to close down immediately. However, six employees of the two restaurants allegedly ganged up against the cops and abused them. They also refused to follow the order to pull down the shutters and threatened the personnel, asking them to leave the place. Sub-inspector Ramamoorthy was also allegedly assaulted by one of the suspects. But when the other two policemen tried to nab them, the staff fled the spot. 

Marudhu reported the incident to senior officers, and a team from the station caught the six suspects on Wednesday. They were identified as B Krishnamoorthy (53), M Rasukutti (26), D Sasikumar (40), J Thirunavukkarasu (34), K Sunil and A Abdur Rahman. All of them remanded.

Chennai: Three persons, who snatched the walkie-talkie from a constable at Madhavaram Milk Colony, were tracked down and caught on Wednesday. The accused not only took away the equipment, but also threw it into the sewer. Karuppasamy, a constable attached to Madhavaram Milk Colony, was on night patrol duty near an Aavin milk booth where he stopped a speeding auto-rickshaw. Three men in the auto, who were in an inebriated condition, got into a fight with the cop. Following this, they escaped with his walkie-talkie fearing he might alert other officials to nab them. Karuppasamy soon managed to alert his seniors and a team secured the trio – Manali Dinakaran (32), who drove the auto, Manikandan (30) and Premkumar (31). Inquiries revealed that they threw the equipment into a sewer, as they did not know how to turn it off. It was retrieved from the spot on Thursday and sent for servicing.