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CHENNAI: Three persons, including a 16-year-old school student, were charged with assault, wrongful restraint and criminal intimidation following a complaint filed by a traffic sub-inspector at Thoraipakkam on Thursday.It was around 7 pm, when SI R Ramesh Kannan (28), attached to the Thoraipakam traffic wing, saw a car speeding towards the Rajiv Nagar signal on the Old Mahabalipuram Road, where he was conducting vehicle checks. “I walked across the road and gestured to the vehicle driver to stop,” the SI said, adding, “The driver slowed down, but suddenly accelerated and sped away, knocking me down in the process. It all happened in a flash,” he said. Traffic constable Murugesan then gave chase on the SI’s two-wheeler, apprehended the car before the Thoraipakkam signal and brought it back. The SI said he that he seized the vehicle’s keys and licence of the driver Rafiq-ul-Islam and issued a challan for `1,050. Amit Jain, one of the occupants whose father was the owner of the car, then claimed that he did not have money to pay the fine and called his elder brother. Inquiry revealed that he was a student of a school at MRC Nagar and a resident of Anand Nagar, Thoraipakkam.Meanwhile, with the car in tow, Ramesh Kannan claimed he started checking other vehicles.“The boy videographed this and also made calls in his cellphone to influential persons and pressed me to talk to them. He was continuously disturbing me,” he said. When his elder brother arrived, the student threw the money on his face, he charged. “When I did not pick up the notes, he placed his hand on my shoulder, caught hold of my shirt and pushed me down.” A verbal altercation that ensued snowballed into fisticuffs. Ramesh Kannan said that he subsequently took the student, his father’s employee Pankaj Kumar (23) and one Rahul Illath to Kannagi Nagar police station to register a complaint. There, he was directed to the Thoraipakkam police station. Even as he was writing down a complaint, other family members of the boy, including his mother Anupama Jain, arrived in another car and took them away. “The boy’s father threatened me, saying that he would show his money power and influence,” the SI said. Acting on his complaint, the Thoraipakkam police registered a case against Amit, Pankaj Kumar and Rahul under various sections of the IPC. In a counter-complaint to the Commissioner of Police, the Jain family alleged that the SI and four other cops imposed a fine of Rs 1,050 saying that the number plate was not in order and that the vehicle was over-speeding and also demanded a bribe.Elderly Couple Conned of 60 SovereignsA man posing as a corporation worker decamped with 60 sovereigns from an elderly couple’s house at Mylapore on Thursday.As per sources, a man arrived at octogenarian Rajagopalan’s house on Desilva Road at 7 am, claiming that he was a corporation sanitary worker and wanted to check whether there was any sewage block. When Rajagopalan told him that he was going to the temple with his wife Chinni (73), he said that he would await their return.When the couple returned an hour later, they allowed him inside the house. However, when they looked inside a safe in one of the rooms after the man left, they found the gold ornaments that were kept there missing. Rajagopalan subsequently lodged a complaint with the Mylapore police. In another incident, V Srinivasan of Mogappair (East) was carrying Rs. 2.78 lakh in a pouch and was on his way to Saidapet on his two-wheeler, when a bike borne thief snatched the pouch and fled. Srinivasan lodged a complaint with the Kumaran Nagar police.
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