Puducherry Murder

Two political workers from Tamil Nadu have been murdered in less than 24 hours -- one of them in neighbouring Puducherry.

Hundreds of people on Thursday joined the funeral procession of a nine-year-old girl who was murdered and allegedly sexual assault in Puducherry. The body of the Class 5 student, who went missing on Saturday evening, was found on Wednesday.

Chief Minister V Narayanasamy said that the killing of the four accused of raping and murdering a veterinary doctor in an encounter by Telangana Police on Friday must be accepted as a punishment to them by God.

Police Monday cracked the case relating to the murder of his mother-in-law and his mother in 2015 and 2017 with the arrest of a 60-year-old man, hailing from Chennai, for allegedly attacking and robbing a doctor of her jewels in her clinic.

In an extremely barbaric incident in Tamil Nadu last night, a young man was hacked to pieces, allegedly by a gang that later flung his severed head into a police station. In CCTV footage, two bikers stop at the entrance, throw the head and drive off into the night.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker Somnath Bharti, an accused in domestic violence and attempt to murder case lodged by his wife, was today granted permission by a Delhi court to travel to Puducherry to attend a party function on October 18.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa should apologise to the Kanchi Mutt seers after a Puducherry court acquitted them of murder charges.

Devotees at the Kanchi Mutt today celebrated by bursting fire crackers as the Puducherry Sessions Court acquitted the Sankaracharya Sri Jeyendra Sarasvati and his Deputy Sri Vijayendra Saraswati in the Sankararaman murder case.

A Puducherry court will today deliver its verdict in the high-profile 2004 Sankararaman murder case, in which two Kanchi Mutt seers Jayendra Saraswathi and Vijayendra are the prime accused.

A local court today adjourned hearing in the Sankararaman murder case to September 6. Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra are the prime accused in the case.

A local court in Puducherry today warned that it would issue arrest warrants if all the 23 accused, including two seers of the Kanchi Mutt, in the Sankararaman murder case failed to appear before it for the next hearing on August 12.

A local court today adjourned hearing in the Sankararaman murder case to April 29 in which Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswati and his junior Vijayendra are the prime accused.

A local court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing in the Sankararaman murder case to July 16. In the case, Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra, are the prime accused.

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Puducherry on Saturday on the charge of murdering his father for not giving him money to buy liquor, police said.

Principal District and Sessions Judge C S Murugan adjourned the case as Padma, widow of Sankararaman, had filed a writ petition in the Madras High court seeking directions to Puducherry court to consider her petitions seeking police protection to her family and re-examination of herself, her son and daughter in the case.

Two political workers from Tamil Nadu have been murdered in less than 24 hours -- one of them in neighbouring Puducherry.

Hundreds of people on Thursday joined the funeral procession of a nine-year-old girl who was murdered and allegedly sexual assault in Puducherry. The body of the Class 5 student, who went missing on Saturday evening, was found on Wednesday.

Chief Minister V Narayanasamy said that the killing of the four accused of raping and murdering a veterinary doctor in an encounter by Telangana Police on Friday must be accepted as a punishment to them by God.

Police Monday cracked the case relating to the murder of his mother-in-law and his mother in 2015 and 2017 with the arrest of a 60-year-old man, hailing from Chennai, for allegedly attacking and robbing a doctor of her jewels in her clinic.

In an extremely barbaric incident in Tamil Nadu last night, a young man was hacked to pieces, allegedly by a gang that later flung his severed head into a police station. In CCTV footage, two bikers stop at the entrance, throw the head and drive off into the night.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker Somnath Bharti, an accused in domestic violence and attempt to murder case lodged by his wife, was today granted permission by a Delhi court to travel to Puducherry to attend a party function on October 18.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa should apologise to the Kanchi Mutt seers after a Puducherry court acquitted them of murder charges.

Devotees at the Kanchi Mutt today celebrated by bursting fire crackers as the Puducherry Sessions Court acquitted the Sankaracharya Sri Jeyendra Sarasvati and his Deputy Sri Vijayendra Saraswati in the Sankararaman murder case.

A Puducherry court will today deliver its verdict in the high-profile 2004 Sankararaman murder case, in which two Kanchi Mutt seers Jayendra Saraswathi and Vijayendra are the prime accused.

A local court today adjourned hearing in the Sankararaman murder case to September 6. Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra are the prime accused in the case.

A local court in Puducherry today warned that it would issue arrest warrants if all the 23 accused, including two seers of the Kanchi Mutt, in the Sankararaman murder case failed to appear before it for the next hearing on August 12.

A local court today adjourned hearing in the Sankararaman murder case to April 29 in which Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswati and his junior Vijayendra are the prime accused.

A local court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing in the Sankararaman murder case to July 16. In the case, Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra, are the prime accused.

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Puducherry on Saturday on the charge of murdering his father for not giving him money to buy liquor, police said.

Principal District and Sessions Judge C S Murugan adjourned the case as Padma, widow of Sankararaman, had filed a writ petition in the Madras High court seeking directions to Puducherry court to consider her petitions seeking police protection to her family and re-examination of herself, her son and daughter in the case.