Naveenkumar

A wild elephant trampled a 27-year-old man to death near Bhavanisagar reservoir in Sirumugai on Tuesday night.The deceased, S naveenkumar of Viscose Colony at Sirumugai, was found dead on the banks of the dam’s backwaters on Wednesday morning.

A kabaadi contest that was conducted near New Dhamu Nagar in Ammankulam here as part of Pongal celebrations took an ugly turn when a three-member gang stabbed a 23-year-old player for inducting guest players into his team on Thursday night.

Two dalit youths were beaten up and assaulted by a group of gounders at an isolated place near Vengamedu in Erode district. The victims, M naveenkumar and Kirubakaran from Polavakalipalayam, were attacked with iron rods and their motorcycle was stolen. When they asked for water, the attackers urinated into their mouths and abused them based on their caste. The police have registered a case against 20 people under the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 2015. The National Commission for Scheduled Castes is planning to visit the village, and a protest demanding the arrest of the gounders has been announced.

A college student attacked a schoolgirl after she refused to reciprocate his love near Andipatti in Theni district.The incident happened on Tuesday night when the girl was returning home from tuitions.

Namakkal police arrested Dhanvardhini for impersonating a revenue divisional officer (RDO) and marrying a bank employee, naveenkumar. naveenkumar filed a complaint after discovering his wife's claims of working as an RDO in Pollachi were false.

A 52-year-old farmer, his son and a relative were killed after the car they were travelling in crashed into a truck on Pollachi-Palakkad Road near Dharmapuram bridge on Sunday morning.

A minor boy who was riding a scooter and a 32-year-old man on a motorcycle were killed in a road accident in Mettupalayam on Friday.

Three youths, who were arrested on charges of murdering a kabaddi player after he won a match by roping in guest players, have been detained under Goondas Act.

Two youths were killed and as many critically injured after the car they were travelling in rammed a concrete block on the roadside and turned turtle on Dharapuram-Pollachi Road near Ammapatti here on Saturday morning.

A final year MBBS student of the Karpagam Medical College at Othakkalmandapam here committed suicide by hanging at the boys hostel on Thursday evening.

A 16-year-old boy drowned in a waterbody near Somayampalayam on the city outskirts on Saturday.The deceased was identified as G Sabaressh, of Chinmaya Nagar on Thondamuthur Road at Vadavalli. He was a Class XI student of the government higher secondary school at Kalveerampalayam.