
Police gun down criminal in encounter
The Hindu
Second 'encounter death' in a week in State
Police have hunted down a criminal who had been wanted booked in 20 criminal cases, including six murder cases, in an 'encounter' at Kovalam, a sleepy coastal hamlet on the outskirts of the town on Friday evening.
This is the second 'encounter' within a week as a thief from Jharkhand, who robbed chain from a woman at gunpoint, was hunted down at Kancheepuram on last Monday.
Police sources claimed that when a team tried to nab V. Durai Murugan, 39, of Thirumalaipuram near Koottaampuli near Pudukottai in the district on Friday around 3.30 p.m. in connection with the recent murder of a youth from Sivagamipuram near Paavoorchathram in Tenkasi district, he launched an attack on them, and consequently, the law-enforcers had to open fire in self defence, and in this the criminal had been shot dead.

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