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Former panchayat

chief murdered

VILLUPURAM: Former president of the Bommaiyarpalayam Panchayat J. Arul Raj was murdered by a group of unidentified persons on Wednesday.

Arul Raj was travelling in his Sumo from Bommaiyarpalayam to Pondicherry when a blue Maruti car blocked the vehicle. The occupants of the car got down and lobbed four crude bombs on the Sumo. As the place was engulfed by smoke, the assailants hacked Arul Raj to death.

He died on the spot, while his driver sustained injuries. The gang fled the scene.

Deputy Inspector General of Police Rajeev Kumar and Superintendent of Police K. Periaiah rushed to the spot along with a contingent of police personnel.

Three police teams have been formed to trace the gang. Though the motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained, it is believed that it could be due to personal enmity or political rivalry.

Arul Raj was said to have been the consensus candidate for the panchayat president post. — Special Correspondent

Cooperative banks to return pledged property

VELLORE: The Government has ordered primary agricultural cooperative banks (PACBs) and cooperative agricultural and rural development banks (ARDBs) to return the jewels and property documents pledged by farmers for obtaining agricultural loans, on their production of loan waiver certificates from respective banks. The Government decided to waive agricultural loans obtained from the PACBs and the ARDBs and outstanding as on March 31, 2006.

Vellore District Collector Dharmendra Pratap Yadav and Regional Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies and Special Officer of the Vellore District Central Cooperative Bank S.A. Manimaran have in a release stated that on getting intimation from offices of the sub-registrars that the hypothecation cancellation certificates were ready, representatives of the PACBs and the ARDBs should sign the certificates, affix the seal and cancel the encumbrance records in respect of the documents. — Special Correspondent

Senior police officials depose before court

ERODE: Senior officials of the Tamil Nadu Police deposed before the Bhavani Fast Track Court on Tuesday in the case relating to supply of arms to slain forest brigand Veerappan in 1993. According to prosecution, a gang of 14 persons was arrested by the then Special Task Force personnel and the court had granted four year RI to them. — Staff Reporter

"Ban organisations supporting LTTE"

CHENNAI: Organisations supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and violence should be banned and their leaders arrested, former Congress Member of Parliament R. Anbarasu said on Wednesday.

Noting that the organisations were not raising voice in support of Sri Lankan Tamils, Mr. Anbarasu said if no action was taken against them, there was every apprehension that Tamil Nadu would become a violence-prone State. "If the Government does not arrest the leaders of such organisations, I will bring together like-minded Rajiv loyalists and go on a fast till death," he said in a statement. — Special Correspondent

MKU contact classes

on August 26

MADURAI: Contact classes for first and second year M.Sc. (Physics) and M.Sc. (Chemistry) students of the Directorate of Distance Education, Madurai Kamaraj University, will be held at N.M.S.S. Vellaichamy Nadar College here on August 26.

The classes will also be held at D.G. Vaishnav College in Chennai on September 2, says a press release. — Staff Reporter

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