Daily wage worker jumps into Retteri Lake to avoid being apprehended by police, dies

A 20-year-old regular wage idiosyncratic drowned successful Retteri Lake adjacent Rajamangalam connected Monday evening. In a bid to evade a constabulary patrol team, helium jumped into the lake.

Fire and rescue unit aboriginal recovered his assemblage and sent it for a post-mortem.

Around 3.45 p.m. connected June 16, residents of Sivasakthi Nagar told the Rajamangalam constabulary presumption that 4 persons were allegedly consuming intoxicant and smoking ganja connected the 10^th street of the area, the constabulary said. Subsequently, a constabulary patrol squad went to the spot for verification.

On seeing the patrol vehicle, the youths fled the spot. While 3 of them escaped, the different person, identified arsenic Gerald David, allegedly jumped into the Lake to debar being caught by the police. When helium did not resurface, the constabulary launched a hunt and informed the Kolathur Fire and Rescue Services Personnel, who retrieved the assemblage astir 6.40 p.m.

Gerald David Johnson, a nonmigratory of Rajamangalam adjacent Villivakkam, was a regular wage labourer.

Following a complaint, the Rajamangalam constabulary person registered a lawsuit and the assemblage had been shifted to the Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital for a post-mortem.

Initial probe indicated that Gerald David and the 3 different youths had allegedly been consuming intoxicant and smoking ganja successful the country earlier the accomplishment of the constabulary patrol team.