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DMK is fielding Senthil Balaji in Coimbatore South with a hope to silence factions which worked against the party’s prospects in Coimbatore district in previous elections.

A 40-year-old man was arrested by the Dindigul police for murdering his wife.The deceased woman was identified as R Devika, 32, of Aranmanaiyur village. She was married to P Rajasekar, 40, of Poothampatti village near Vedasandur for 10 years. The couple had three sons.

Trichy city police are on the lookout for accused in six cases of mobile phone robberies, some at knife point, from pedestrians and bike riders in the past few days. R Rajasekaran of Chinthamani was walking near Anna statue on Monday evening when he was intercepted and robbed of his mobile phone and Rs 2,000 cash at knife point.

On Thursday night, the Ambattur police detained them on suspicion during a vehicle check.

Though a complaint was lodged three years ago, the DVAC registered a case only on May 17 as it waited for concurrence from the department.The official is currently an ATO at the Chengalpet training institute.

The president of filmstar Vijay Sethupathi fans' association was hacked to death by a gang of more than four people, led by his brother-in-law, on Sunday night in the Union territory of Puducherry.

Police seized Rs 3 lakh from a businessman at Gandhipuram in the city on Saturday morning after he failed to produce valid documents to explain the source of the cash.

His last rites were held in Chennai on Sunday evening.

Two people have been arrested for assaulting a 48-year-old man for turning down one of their friends’ request to stay in his house at Vilankurichi on Wednesday night. The main accused in the case is on the run and the Kovilpalayam police have launched a manhunt for him.

olice claimed to have solved the May 5 murder of a 35-year-old worker in Sriperumbudur with the arrest of his wife and her boyfriend on Friday. R Rathi, 32, and Rajasekar, 23, confessed to committing the murder and were sent to jail.

Special judge for CBI cases R Killivalavan sentenced D Rajasekar, an IFS officer who was the CBFC regional director in 2010, for a one-year rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him.