Wanted history sheeter 'Bomb' Saravanan shot, arrested after attack on SI
Sub inspector was stabbed by Saravanan, a A plus category rowdy, with a knife and the police shot him in the leg for protection. Saravanan sustained an injury to his left leg and is undergoing treatment as an inpatient in Government Stanley Hospital, police said.
CHENNAI: A 45-year-old A-Plus category history-sheeter, who is wanted in more than two dozen cases, including murders, was shot at and arrested by a special team from Pulianthope police station. The wanted criminal, who suffered a bullet injury on his leg, allegedly attacked a sub-inspector who was part of the team that went to nab him on Wednesday night, claimed the police.
According to the police, Saravanan stabbed a sub-inspector with a knife, prompting the officials to shoot him in the leg in self-defense. Saravanan sustained an injury to his left leg and is undergoing treatment at the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital, police said.
Police seized 5 kg ganja, country-made bombs and knives from Saravanan.
Saravanan has around 33 cases, including 6 murder cases.
Immediately after the shooting and arrest, his wife Mahalakshmi, a lawyer, alleged that the whole episode was scripted by the city police and added that he was arrested in Andhra Pradesh much before the alleged attack happened.
"There has not been any genuine case against him for the last 15 years. Only arrest warrants on false cases are pending against him. My husband was arrested in Chittoor yesterday and was kept in illegal detention without producing him before a judge within 24 hours as mandated by the law," she claimed on Wednesday night.
Mahalakshmi claimed that both the Greater Chennai Police Commissionerate and the State police headquarters did not divulge any information when she got in touch to know about his whereabouts. "Now I am told that the police shot him," she said.
Saravanan murdered brother’s killer, say cops
The Chennai police said on Thursday that Saravanan is an accused in the murder of Paneer Selvam alias 'Yanai' Selvam of Koyambedu, who went missing in 2018.
Selvam was initially abducted by a lawyer identified as Rajesh and his associate Akram Abu along with two others over a real state dispute. Saravanan joined them and took Selvam to Andhra Pradesh, where he was allegedly murdered and his body was burnt in a river bed.
Selvam was one of the accused in the murder of Saravanan’s brother Thennarasu, an active member of BSP, in 2015. Saravanan wanted to take revenge for the murder and killed him along with the others who kidnapped him, the police claimed.
