An eight-year-old boy died and several others fainted after eating cake at a birthday party of a teenaged girl at Dharmapuri, about 230km from Chennai, last week. Police said the boy was rushed to hospital where doctors declared him dead. His family refused to accept the body demanding punishment for the bakery owner who had supplied the cake. However the bakery owner was found to be innocent. Investigations led the police to suspect the birthday girl’s father who did not eat the cake. After his arrest, the man told the police that he had laced the cake with poison in a bid to kill his children due to family problems.
Drug racketeer made millions of rupees: police
A man arrested for recycling and selling expired medicines in the open market, earned nearly Rs400mn from the racket in the past decade, police said. They said Meenakshi Sundaram ‘employed’ hundreds of slum dwellers and middlemen to collect expired medicines dumped at the Kondugaiyur dump yard. Sundaram, a former medical representative, built up a prosperous business and paid heavy annual income tax. He lived a luxurious lifestyle and owned expensive cars. He had even planned to set up a fake drug manufacturing unit.
Angry villagers torch paper mill in Sivakasi
Tension gripped Sivakasi after angry protesters set fire to a paper mill under construction last week. Reports said that residents of Vadapatti had been against the paper mill as they said it would affect the ground water level and also pollute the environment.The fire destroyed the generator room, the store and other rooms. A probe was ordered into the attack after discussions with the villagers. In another incident, a shop stocked with cotton bolls was destroyed in a fire sparked by an electrical short circuit at Theni, about 200km from the temple city of Madurai. However no one was killed or injured in the accident though the fire raged for hours.
Five killed as jeep, lorry collide
Five people were killed and a woman injured when their jeep collided with a lorry carrying sand at Kumaran Kundru near Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district last week. However the lorry driver escaped. In a separate incident, three people including a three-year-old child were killed when a jeep collided with a tractor on the Tiruchy-Chennai national highway near Perambalur. The tractor driver lost control while turning his vehicle. In a third incident, three DMK party workers were killed when a bus knocked down their bike at Villupuram about 200km from Chennai last week.
Vaiko, party activists held
Opposition MDMK party leader Vaiko and 150 party workers were arrested near the Amaravathy check post in Udumalpet on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border last week. Vaiko had gone to check if the Kerala government had built a dam across the Pamba river that irrigates thousands of acres in Tamil Nadu. Vaiko had reportedly threatened to stop food supplies from Tamil Nadu if the Kerala government went ahead with the dam construction.
TNPSC exams
The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission exams will be held throughout the state on April 11. Hall tickets have been mailed to the candidates, the government said in a statement.
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