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Tuesday, Mar 09, 2004

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Temperature

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, MARCH 8 . The City today registered a maximum temperature of 34.5 degree Celsius and a minimum of 20.0 degree Celsius.

Gang held

The police have arrested a gang, which waylaid a petrol station manager, and relieved him of Rs.95000 in the city on Saturday.

The gang had waylaid S. Thomas, manager of a private petrol station, when he was on his way to the company office at Benwell's Road in a moped. Two intercepted him near Cantonment and attacked him while three others snatched away his cash and moped.

A team, formed by the City Police Commissioner, T. P. Sundaramoorthy, nabbed K. Senthil Kumar (24) of Mudaliar Chathiram, R. Sathish Kumar (21) of Bikshandarkovil, Mohammed Rafeeq, son of a former employee in the company, T.Vasudevan (21 of Chinthamani and U.Karnan (20) of Mudaliar Chathiram. The motorcycle and moped used by the accused were seized. The stolen cash of Rs.95000 and his moped were recovered.

Power shutdown

There will be no power supply in the following areas from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 9 due to maintenance work on the Mathur sub-station, according to a TNEB press release:

Mathur, Kumaramangalam, Bharathidasan University, Gundur Burma Colony, Avoor, Kalimangalam, Kunnathur, Sengalakudy, Amburpatti, Manikandam, Alampatty, Nagamangalam and Alunthur areas.

Mettur level

Water level at the Mettur reservoir stood at 25.41 feet today. The inflow was 116 cusecs and discharge nil.

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