CHENNAI: In an incident that has shocked officers at the high-security Central Prison in Puzhal, 5 inmates murdered a 41-year-old history-sheeter in a bathroom on Wednesday morning, viciously slashing his throat with an improvised ‘knife’ — honed edge of a damaged aluminium plate — and reducing off his genitals.
A police officer said the slain man, ‘boxer’ Murali, were lodged within the jail since 2015 and was once recently detained underneath the Goondas Act. The assailants had been recognized as Saranraj, Karthik, Ramesh, Joel and Pradeep.
Around 9am on Wednesday, the officer said, Murali had long past to the toilet when the gang encircled him and dragged him to an empty room earlier than one in all them attacked him within the throat and personal portions with the ‘knife’.
After the gang fled, a few different prisoners who had heard Murali’s screams but brushed it off as yet another struggle, rushed to the spot and found him bleeding profusely. They straight away knowledgeable the jail personnel who took him to the jail hospital, where first support was once administered, and then to the Stanley Medical College and Hospital, where he died. Police said Murali, a Vyasarpadi resident and a detailed aide of gangster ‘Kakathope’ Balaji, is survived by means of his wife and two youngsters. The key suspect within the 2005 murder of Indira, an arrack dealer from MKB Nagar, and that of V Babloo, a notorious Vyasarpadi rowdy, Murali had 15 instances pending against him, together with four attempt-to-murder instances, in several police stations, said the officer. He was once a few of the few other people detained underneath the Goondas Act to be shifted from Prison II (remand prisoners) to Prison I (convicts).
Murali and a gangster named Nagendran, a lifestyles convict now present process remedy at a personal hospital, had been sour opponents, said the reputable. Since Nagendran’s hospitalisation, his aides Saranraj, Karthik, Ramesh, Joel and Pradeep were selecting up widespread quarrels with Murali and the 2 teams had been underneath watch, he added.
On Tuesday night, after a clash erupted between the warring teams, the jail warden warned each side. The next morning, the gang discovering “the coast” empty, murdered him.
As information of the daring killing spread, Murali’s family members rushed to the hospital and staged a protest in search of motion against the 5 men and refusing to assemble the body after the postmortem. Senior law enforcement officials attempted to pacify them but in vain.
“We idea he could be safe in jail and would be capable to lead a peaceful lifestyles after coming out. They will have to have monitored the prisoners because it was once unsafe to stay the entire opponents in a single block. The loss of correct coverage to the inmates has claimed a lifestyles now,” said Prakash, a relative.
A police officer said the slain man, ‘boxer’ Murali, were lodged within the jail since 2015 and was once recently detained underneath the Goondas Act. The assailants had been recognized as Saranraj, Karthik, Ramesh, Joel and Pradeep.
Around 9am on Wednesday, the officer said, Murali had long past to the toilet when the gang encircled him and dragged him to an empty room earlier than one in all them attacked him within the throat and personal portions with the ‘knife’.
After the gang fled, a few different prisoners who had heard Murali’s screams but brushed it off as yet another struggle, rushed to the spot and found him bleeding profusely. They straight away knowledgeable the jail personnel who took him to the jail hospital, where first support was once administered, and then to the Stanley Medical College and Hospital, where he died. Police said Murali, a Vyasarpadi resident and a detailed aide of gangster ‘Kakathope’ Balaji, is survived by means of his wife and two youngsters. The key suspect within the 2005 murder of Indira, an arrack dealer from MKB Nagar, and that of V Babloo, a notorious Vyasarpadi rowdy, Murali had 15 instances pending against him, together with four attempt-to-murder instances, in several police stations, said the officer. He was once a few of the few other people detained underneath the Goondas Act to be shifted from Prison II (remand prisoners) to Prison I (convicts).
Murali and a gangster named Nagendran, a lifestyles convict now present process remedy at a personal hospital, had been sour opponents, said the reputable. Since Nagendran’s hospitalisation, his aides Saranraj, Karthik, Ramesh, Joel and Pradeep were selecting up widespread quarrels with Murali and the 2 teams had been underneath watch, he added.
On Tuesday night, after a clash erupted between the warring teams, the jail warden warned each side. The next morning, the gang discovering “the coast” empty, murdered him.
As information of the daring killing spread, Murali’s family members rushed to the hospital and staged a protest in search of motion against the 5 men and refusing to assemble the body after the postmortem. Senior law enforcement officials attempted to pacify them but in vain.
“We idea he could be safe in jail and would be capable to lead a peaceful lifestyles after coming out. They will have to have monitored the prisoners because it was once unsafe to stay the entire opponents in a single block. The loss of correct coverage to the inmates has claimed a lifestyles now,” said Prakash, a relative.
5 convicts gang up to kill rival in Puzhal jail
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