CHENNAI: Following the murder of a man near the court in Tirunelveli district, DGP Shankar Jiwal has directed the deployment of armed police at all court complexes in the state. All SPs and commissioners have been requested to deploy a team comprising an SI and two police personnel at the court complexes in their jurisdictions as an interim measure. The …
After former Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi Palaniswami claimed that Chennai had become a ‘murder city’ due to public murders in the last week, Police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal responded by saying that the number of murders in Chennai had reduced by 25% compared to last year. Countering EPS’s statement that 18 murders had occurred in Chennai in the last 20 days, …