Tuticorin : C Gyanraj Jebasingh, 39, son of former AIADMK minister ST Chellapandian, was detained under goonda act on Thursday. He is the mastermind of a gang of seven that attacked the driver of a container truck laden with cashew nuts and hijacked the vehicle along with cashew nuts and the driver, worth Rs 1.2 crore, in the early hours of November 26.
The 39-year-old and his six accomplices deflected a container carrying cashew nuts for export from a factory in Kanyakumari district. Tuticorin the port from which it was to be sent Tokyo, Japan. The gang caught the driver on the way near Pudukottai on the Tirunelveli-Tuticorin national highway, changed the number plate of the container and hijacked him.
After a hard fight, the police surrounded the gang near Rasipuram in Namakkal district and recovered a container truck with 16.5 tonnes of cashew nuts.
Based on the report of Pudukottai Inspector Ramesh, Tuticorin District Superintendent of Police S Jayakumar recommended the custody of the District Collector. Gnanaraj under goonda act
On Thursday, District Collector K Senthil Raj passed an order to detain the son of the former minister under the Goondas Act. A copy of the order was served to Gyanraj, who is lodged in the Palayamkottai Central Prison.
The 39-year-old and his six accomplices deflected a container carrying cashew nuts for export from a factory in Kanyakumari district. Tuticorin the port from which it was to be sent Tokyo, Japan. The gang caught the driver on the way near Pudukottai on the Tirunelveli-Tuticorin national highway, changed the number plate of the container and hijacked him.
After a hard fight, the police surrounded the gang near Rasipuram in Namakkal district and recovered a container truck with 16.5 tonnes of cashew nuts.
Based on the report of Pudukottai Inspector Ramesh, Tuticorin District Superintendent of Police S Jayakumar recommended the custody of the District Collector. Gnanaraj under goonda act
On Thursday, District Collector K Senthil Raj passed an order to detain the son of the former minister under the Goondas Act. A copy of the order was served to Gyanraj, who is lodged in the Palayamkottai Central Prison.
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