Police foil gang’s murder plan

According to police officers, trouble started when Ramakrishnan, said to be part of Radhakrishnan’s gang, sought ‘mamool’ from Krishnaveni. She complained about this to her grandson, who allegedly assaulted Ramakrishnan. Kannan also challenged the gang publicly, refusing to offer any payments for running ganja trade.

Embarrassed by this, Ramakrishnan reported this to his boss Sudhakar, a key member of the gang. Sudhakar then deputed Dinesh, also a history-sheeter, to help Ramakrishnan in murdering Kannan. 

On Sunday evening, Kilpauk assistant commissioner Hari Kumar received a tip-off about the gang’s plan to eliminate Kannan that night. “The sketch was ready to eliminate Kannan on Sunday night. But as we received timely information about the plan, we intercepted the gang and neutralised the plan effectively,” noted the assistant commissioner on Tuesday. 

Dinesh Kumar and Madhan Kumar were arrested near Shenoy Nagar Metro station, while Elangovan and Ramakrishnan were picked up from New Avadi Road, police said. The team also arrested Kannan. 

Arumbakkam Radhakrishnan, a notorious gangster, had surrendered last month after the city police began a crackdown on gangsters in the city after the sleuths busted a get-together of the rowdies for the birthday celebration of another gangster Binu Pappachan alias Choolaimedu Binu. 

A narcotics peddler for more than 35 years, Krishnaveni is among the most well-known faces to the police officers here. For years, officers in city police have been waiting for the 77-year-old to retire from ganja trade, but in vain. 

“We thought Krishnaveni would have some retirement plan. But, every time she comes out of jail, she starts her business again. She has more than 40 cases, including murder, against her. Currently, she is not very active,” police said and added that nearly nine years ago, a gang had killed her son over business rivalry. 

Krishnaveni retaliated by ordering the killing of those who were responsible for the murder of her son, a police officer recalled. She has been detained under the Goondas Act at least five times so far.