M. Mahesh, a resident of Ganapathy who is working in an IT firm in Bengaluru, has lodged a complaint with the City Police Commissioner alleging that a few college students engaged in the sale of drugs had threatened him and his friend Vishal of dire consequences as they attempted to expose them.
Mahesh said that Hari, Kishore, Kannan, and Sreejith, owed him money.
When he went to their room in P.K. Pudur a few days ago, they had told him that he could take their laptop and mobile phones in lieu of the money and could return the gadgets when they repaid him.
When he checked the phone, he found that they were peddling ganja and ‘LSD.’
When his friend Vishal confronted them, the students threatened him too. Vishal had lodged a complaint with the police.
Vishal and Mahesh have handed over the laptop and one of the two phones to the police.
Another person claiming to be a lawyer too had threatened them with dire consequences.
Mahesh said that he had handed over the second phone too to the police.
Body found
The body of a youth was found on railway track near Anaimalai, near the Meenakshipuram Railway Gate.
A train bound for Tiruchendur was delayed for over two hours on Friday.
The police suspect that the youth was murdered and thrown on the track.
Four held
The police have arrested four persons on the charge of duping Bhuvaneswaran, a resident of Jothi Nagar, of ₹7 lakh.
The Police arrested the four on Thursday on Valparai Road as they attempted to flee with the money Bhuvaneswaran had given them.
They were on the lookout for four more persons.
The police said that when Bhuvaneswaran had sought advice from his friend, Balan (45) of Villupuram, to start a business.
He had suggested that they could buy iridium at low cost and sell it for a premium, and sought ₹10 lakh.
Bhuvaneswaran borrowed ₹7 lakh from his friends.
Balan, along with his friends Senthil (45) of Villupuram, Nataraj (50) of Tirupur, and Vinayagam (43) of Udumalpet went to Bhuvaneswaran’s house to collect the money.
When Bhuvaneswaran demanded that he first see iridium, Balan and his friends entered into an argument with him.
Then, a four-member gang dressed as police entered Bhuvaneswaran’s house claiming that they have to search his house for ‘ganja.’
They later took ₹7 lakh and ran away.
Balan and friends too got in to the car the ‘policemen’ had hired and fled the place along with the cash.
Bhuvaneswaran realised that he had been duped and informed the police.
It was found that Thangaraj, Nataraj, Kandan, and Krishnamoorthy, all former staff of Forest Department, had impersonated the police. The police are yet to arrest them.
Woman killed
Renuka Devi (24), a resident of Alandurai, was killed when the shawl she was wearing was caught in a machine at a mill in Appanaickenpatti, Sulur, on Thursday where she was working.
She died at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.
Cheating case
The police have registered a cheating case against C. Jeevanandam, a resident of Thudiyalur, and Muthusamy, a land dealer, based on a complaint by B. Ganga Devi of Edayarpalayam.
She told the police that she came to know that the land she had bought in 1992 in Kalangal, Sulur, from Jeevanandam with the help from Muthusamy was found to be sold to Muthulakshmi, in 1989.
This came to light when she tried to sell the land.
Temple burgled
Unidentified persons on Wednesday entered the Angala Parameswari Simma Peedam temple in Saradhambal Nagar, Karumathampatty, and decamped with a bronze statue of the diety. The police have registered a case.
