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Coimbatore: The en masse transfer of police personnel in the district after DMK came to power has raised eyebrows. More than 80% of police officers, including 30 of the 40 inspectors, eight assistant commissioners of police (ACPs), six deputy superintendent of police (DSPs), deputy commissioners and even the city police commissioner were shunted out after the new government was formed. The wind of change had started blowing through the district during the election season. Former Coimbatore coll...

Coimbatore: An ATM owned by the South Indian Bank at Vettaikaranpudur near Pollachi was gutted on Friday morning after a burglar tried to open it using a gas cutter. CCTV cameras captured a man, with his face covered with a piece of cloth and wearing gloves, enter the ATM centre at 2.50am. He attempted to open the currency chest using a gas cutter for 10 minutes, but was forced to flee when a fire broke out. Bank authorities received information about the fire around 3.40am and rushed to the AT...

The gutted ATM COIMBATORE: An ATM was gutted at Vettaikaranpudur near Pollachi in the early hours of Friday when a miscreant attempted to break it open with a gas cutter. A man, who covered his face with cloths and covered his hands with gloves, entered an ATM room belonging to South Indian Bank around 2.50 am. He attempted to break the ATM open using a gas cutter. When fire broke out, the miscreant fled the scene. The entire sequences were recorded in CCTV cameras in the ATM room. The bank a...

Coimbatore: In a complete disrespect to a dead person, the Selvapuram and Vadavalli police on Tuesday entered into a jurisdictional dispute while leaving the body in Nagarajapuram tank, where it was found around 7am on the day, till 6.30pm. According to a police source, the body, with its head covered in a polythene bag, was first spotted by Nagarajapuram villagers, who went to attend nature’s call near the waterbody in the morning. “Half of the body (till hip) was on the lake bund, while ...

Coimbatore: The Mettupalayam police on Sunday arrested BJP functionary Kalayanaraman on charges of hate speech and creating enmity between two communities. He was arrested following tense moments in Mettuaplayam and Coimbatore. As many as 500 cops were deployed in Mettupalayam after members of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) pelted stones at a BJP meeting on Sunday evening. To support the tractor rally of farmers in New Delhi on January 26, SDPI had conducted a protest at Mettupala...

BJP activist Kalyanaraman arrested in connection with Mettupalayam communal tension Several SDPI members have also been booked for allegedly resorting to violence at the BJP demonstration and for defaming prime minister Modi at an earlier event Share Via Email   |  A+A A- By Express News Service COIMBATORE: After communal tensions prevailed in Mettupalayam on Sunday, Coimbatore district police arrested BJP functionary R Kalyanaraman (54), a BJP state executive member from Mannadi in Che...

Picture for representational purpose only. COIMBATORE: The rural police have identified the four-member gang that stole a car containing Rs 10 lakh from Marappalam in Madukkarai here last week. Police collected 200 CCTV footage from Coimbatore till Thrissur in Kerala to find the Alappuzha-based gang, police superintendent Ara Arularasu said. G Mohammed Mustafa, 34, a cab driver from Mannarkkad in Palakkad district, lodged a complaint with the Madukkarai police on Tuesday. He had come to Oppan...

Vellamadai village panchayat vice-president R Ganeshan and his younger brother R Muruganandam were arrested on Sunday for murdering a 25-year-old man

The officers will also start a WhatsApp group to help villagers address their various issues. As many as 283 mother villagers come under the Coimbatore district police. In total, 397 police personnel (special sub-inspectors, head constables, grade one constables) have been appointed as VVPOs. Flex boards in each village have been installed giving the mobile numbers of VVPOs, police inspector, police sub-inspector and police station numbers. "We have initiated the VVPOs across the district on ...

COIMBATORE: An AIADMK woman functionary and a man accompanying her were beaten up by DMK cadres at the gram sabha meeting venue in Devarayapuram village panchayat on Saturday. DMK chief Stalin was addressing party cadres, when V Poongodi, 40, district deputy president of AIADMK’s women wing, stood up and said she wanted to ask a question. When Stalin asked her where she was from, Poongodi said she hailed from Sugunapuram near Kuniyamuthur. Stalin asked her if the place is in Devarayapuram vi...