Coimbatore: A 50-year-old man was arrested on Friday for murdering his wife suspecting her character at Arivozhi Nagar Kuttai at Mettupalayam on Thurs.
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COIMBATORE: Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) sleuths arrested a deputy registrar and a sub-registrar with the cooperative department on Friday night for accepting a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh from the secretary of Dhalavaipalayam Primary Agriculture Credit Society in connection with farm loan wavier.
An investigation officer said Sivaji, secretary, Dhalavaipalayam Primary Agriculture Credit Society, had approached them when Selvaraja, 41, deputy registrar of cooperative department at Mahalingapuram in Pollachi and Arumugam, 36, sub registrar at Anaimalai threatened to issue summons to him and not to wave agricultural loans of 17 members of the society if he didn’t pay a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh.
Coimbatore: With the railways yet to restart unreserved and local trains, thousands of people travelling to the city for work from Mettupalayam, Pollachi, Palakkad and Singanallur are forced to use their own vehicle or get into crowded buses, which make them more susceptible to catching Coronavirus.
“This has led to taking buses from Palakkad to Coimbatore, which cost eight to nine times more than the train,” said Madhavi, a GST department employee, who travels from Palakkad daily. “It costs Rs 5,000 a month, compared to the Rs 270 one-month pass.”
Sangavi from Pollachi, who has now begun taking bus to work, said it takes at least 10 minutes longer. “Though the bus is faster, it must take roundabouts due to the Athupalam flyover work and due to the election. It is also more tiring.”
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COIMBATORE: A 54-year-old man murdered his 15-year-old daughter by slitting her throat with a knife before jumping to death in full public view from the third floor of his apartment at the slum clearance board’s housing unit at Aathikattur near Maniyakaranpalayam in Salem district. The man resorted to the crime in the early hours of Friday after his daughter allegedly shamed him over his unstable mental condition.
Edappadi police said Gopal, a vegetable seller, committed the murder when his wife was away in Dharmapuri for agriculture work. “He had been under treatment at the Salem government hospital for mental illness for the past one and a half years,” a police officer said.