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A history-sheeter who breached an externment bid issued by the Greater Chennai Police Commissioner has been remanded successful judicial custody, marking the archetypal clip successful astir 25 years, that provisions of the City Police Act person been invoked to jailhouse a violator of specified an order, the constabulary said.
The externment orders were issued arsenic portion of a crackdown connected notorious rowdy elements entering the metropolis and threatening nationalist peace. Chennai Police Commissioner A. Arun directed preventive enactment to curb the activities of specified offenders wrong Greater Chennai limits.
Acting connected the proposal of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Triplicane district, externment orders nether Section 51A of the Chennai City Police Act were issued connected September 13, past twelvemonth against 5 history-sheeters assessed arsenic a menace to nationalist information and apt to intimidate witnesses successful pending cases.
The 5 persons are Ajay Rohan, 36, of Panaiyur; Nagendra Sethupathi, 33, of Ramanathapuram district; Premkumar, 45, of Anna Nagar, Madurai district; Raja, 42, of Thiruvanmiyur; and Selva Bharathi, 26. Three much history-sheeters were issued akin externment orders successful April past year.
Ajay Rohan faces 3 cases; Nagendra Sethupathi, a history-sheeter astatine Paramakudi Town constabulary station, is progressive successful 4 cases; Premkumar successful 3 cases; Raja successful 1 case; and Selva Bharathi successful 2 cases.
Under the order, the 5 men were barred from entering Greater Chennai constabulary limits for 1 year, but to be tribunal hearings oregon constabulary inquiries related to their cases. Authorities had warned that immoderate usurpation would invitation strict ineligible action.
Police said that connected February 11, Premkumar of Anna Nagar, Madurai, violated the externment bid by entering the city. He was arrested by the F-3 Nungambakkam police, produced earlier the 14th Metropolitan Magistrate Court successful Egmore the aforesaid day, and remanded successful judicial custody until February 25.
Crackdown nether Section 51A
To rein successful repetition offenders and support instrumentality and order, the Greater Chennai City Police person invoked Section 51A of the Madras City Police Act. The proviso empowers the Police Commissioner to nonstop the removal of individuals from the metropolis if their movements oregon activities are apt to origin alarm, danger, oregon harm to persons oregon property, oregon if determination are tenable grounds to judge they whitethorn perpetrate offences involving unit oregon violence.
Senior constabulary officials said the proviso has been invoked aft a spread of astir 25 years. In the past six months alone, externment orders person been issued against astatine slightest 8 individuals.
Apart from the 5 named successful September 2025, akin orders were issued successful April against ‘Nedunkundram’ Surya (a BJP authorities office-bearer), ‘Naduveerapattu’ Lenin, and ‘Rocket’ Raja, barring them from entering the metropolis for a year.
Police said the determination is portion of a broader strategy to place and enactment against history-sheeters repeatedly progressive successful convulsive crimes and nationalist disturbances. In coordination with districts crossed Tamil Nadu, authorities person besides traced offenders who were connected the tally to evade ineligible enactment and initiated stringent proceedings against them.
According to the Commissioner’s order, the externment measures purpose to safeguard nationalist bid and forestall the recurrence of transgression activities by individuals progressive successful aggregate superior offences and posing a important menace to nationalist safety.
