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The Peelamedu constabulary person arrested 9 retired of 15 persons who were progressive successful the abduction of a beverage stall proprietor from Cheran Maa Nagar successful Coimbatore city, a fewer days ago.
N. Dharmaraj (32) and Venkat Prabbhu (25) of Madurai, P. Isakkimuthu of Thoothukudi, S. Sasikumar (23) of Theni, M. Sundaramahalingam (29) of Rathinapuri successful Coimbatore, M. Sudeep (23) of Bengaluru and 3 others, namely K. Bhuvaneswaran (29), T. Muthusamy (21) and A. Mathavan (25), were arrested for abducting Velmurugan (34), a autochthonal of Thiruchendur successful Thoothukudi district.
The constabulary said Velmurugan, who was moving a beverage stall astatine Cheran Maa Nagar, and his person Nagaraj (36) were lodged successful Coimbatore Central Prison successful judicial remand successful an effort to execution lawsuit past year.
They reportedly had a communal statement that whoever gets bail archetypal should assistance the different idiosyncratic travel retired of prison. When Velmurugan was granted bail successful December 2025, helium had allegedly assured Nagaraj that helium would assistance him get bail wrong a month. However, Velmurugan allegedly did not assistance Nagaraj, who complained the aforesaid to his person Isakkimuthu erstwhile helium visited him astatine situation recently.
According to the police, 7 persons came successful a car and abducted Velmurugan erstwhile helium was astatine his beverage stall connected the nighttime of June 17. They assaulted him and allegedly demanded 2 lakh for ineligible expenses for Nagaraj. The pack aboriginal near him astatine Saravanampatti, aft threatening him to put the currency astatine the earliest.
Velmurugan lodged a ailment with the Peelamedu police, who launched an probe and arrested the 9 persons connected Saturday (June 20, 2026).
