Techie, 30, clubbed with rod, robbed near Chennai IT hub
AP Woman Fell From Scooter; Is Critical: Docs
Sindhu.Kannan@timesgroup.com
Chennai: A man bludgeoned a 30-year-old software engineer in the head with an iron rod, knocking the woman off her scooter and leaving her with multiple facial fractures, before escaping with her gold chain, cellphone and two wheeler in an astonishingly brutal and daring attack in Arasankazhani, just 2km from the IT Corridor, around 2.20am on Tuesday.
The attack left P Lavanya Janath, a native of Vijayawada who works at Newt Global in Navalur, drifting in and out of consciousness near bushes on the Thalambur-Perumbakkam road, an investigating officer said.
“A passerby found the woman at 4am and alerted the police control room,” he said. “After knocking her off the bike, the assailant dragged her across the road to a bush, perhaps to avoid being spotted while he ripped off her three sovereign gold chain and grabbed her phone.”
The woman was in critical condition in hospital. Bloodspattered rocks and tracks on the tar from the assailant dragging the woman across the road were still at the scene of the crime, near a building under construction, more than 14 hours later.
Tuesday’s attack marked a high point in a recent spurt in violent crime in the city and took place two years, to the day, after three migrant workers raped and killed Uma Maheshwari, 24, an employee of TCS in Siruseri.
Lavanya, who lives in a rented house in Thalambur, left her company on Rajiv Gandhi Salai after her shift at 2am, investigators said, adding that she could have been heading to her sister’s house in Nookampalayam near Sithalapakkam when the man took her by surprise.
DESERTED: The woman was attacked on a poorly-lit stretch near Sithalapakkam
Accused in chain snatching held
Two days after Jayashree, 54, a resident of Raghavendra Nagar in Irandam Kattalai, was robbed of her gold chain, the Kunrathur police arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with the robbery from Puducherry on Tuesday. While P Siva was secured from his Puducherry hideout, his accomplice Solomon is still at large. P 2
Assailant may have been armed with knife too: Police
Chennai: “The victim sustained several fractures and injuries to the face and is receiving treatment at Gleneagles Global Health City, Perumbakkam. Doctors described her condition as critical,” the officer said. “She also had lacerations, so it is possible that the assailant was armed with a knife, too, apart from an iron rod.”
The man intercepted Lavanya while she was negotiating a bend in the road in Arasankazhani, he said.
The Pallikaranai police arrived at the spot within minutes of the passerby alerting the control room about the crime. Officers found that the woman was still alive. They used her ID card to contact her seniors at Newt Global and inform them about the attack.
“Lavanya told patrol policemen that the man who attacked her was alone. He fled the scene after robbing her,” the officer said. “She lost consciousness and could not remember anything after that.”
Deputy commissioner of police, St Thomas Mount, M S Muthusamy said the techie usually took a different route home.
“We are still not sure where Lavanya was heading when the assailant struck,” he said. “It appears that she was going to visit her sister in Nookampalayam. We are waiting for her to recover enough to be able to speak to us.”
Neurosurgeon Dr K Sridhar said Lavanya was on life support and doctors at Gleneagles were continuously monitoring her condition. “Her vital parameters are now stable,” he said. “We performed surgery for her injuries including fractures to her head and face.”
AP Woman Fell From Scooter; Is Critical: Docs
Sindhu.Kannan@timesgroup.com
Chennai: A man bludgeoned a 30-year-old software engineer in the head with an iron rod, knocking the woman off her scooter and leaving her with multiple facial fractures, before escaping with her gold chain, cellphone and two wheeler in an astonishingly brutal and daring attack in Arasankazhani, just 2km from the IT Corridor, around 2.20am on Tuesday.
The attack left P Lavanya Janath, a native of Vijayawada who works at Newt Global in Navalur, drifting in and out of consciousness near bushes on the Thalambur-Perumbakkam road, an investigating officer said.
“A passerby found the woman at 4am and alerted the police control room,” he said. “After knocking her off the bike, the assailant dragged her across the road to a bush, perhaps to avoid being spotted while he ripped off her three sovereign gold chain and grabbed her phone.”
The woman was in critical condition in hospital. Bloodspattered rocks and tracks on the tar from the assailant dragging the woman across the road were still at the scene of the crime, near a building under construction, more than 14 hours later.
Tuesday’s attack marked a high point in a recent spurt in violent crime in the city and took place two years, to the day, after three migrant workers raped and killed Uma Maheshwari, 24, an employee of TCS in Siruseri.
Lavanya, who lives in a rented house in Thalambur, left her company on Rajiv Gandhi Salai after her shift at 2am, investigators said, adding that she could have been heading to her sister’s house in Nookampalayam near Sithalapakkam when the man took her by surprise.
DESERTED: The woman was attacked on a poorly-lit stretch near Sithalapakkam
Accused in chain snatching held
Two days after Jayashree, 54, a resident of Raghavendra Nagar in Irandam Kattalai, was robbed of her gold chain, the Kunrathur police arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with the robbery from Puducherry on Tuesday. While P Siva was secured from his Puducherry hideout, his accomplice Solomon is still at large. P 2
Assailant may have been armed with knife too: Police
Chennai: “The victim sustained several fractures and injuries to the face and is receiving treatment at Gleneagles Global Health City, Perumbakkam. Doctors described her condition as critical,” the officer said. “She also had lacerations, so it is possible that the assailant was armed with a knife, too, apart from an iron rod.”
The man intercepted Lavanya while she was negotiating a bend in the road in Arasankazhani, he said.
The Pallikaranai police arrived at the spot within minutes of the passerby alerting the control room about the crime. Officers found that the woman was still alive. They used her ID card to contact her seniors at Newt Global and inform them about the attack.
“Lavanya told patrol policemen that the man who attacked her was alone. He fled the scene after robbing her,” the officer said. “She lost consciousness and could not remember anything after that.”
Deputy commissioner of police, St Thomas Mount, M S Muthusamy said the techie usually took a different route home.
“We are still not sure where Lavanya was heading when the assailant struck,” he said. “It appears that she was going to visit her sister in Nookampalayam. We are waiting for her to recover enough to be able to speak to us.”
Neurosurgeon Dr K Sridhar said Lavanya was on life support and doctors at Gleneagles were continuously monitoring her condition. “Her vital parameters are now stable,” he said. “We performed surgery for her injuries including fractures to her head and face.”
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