TUTICORIN: The Thoothukudi South Police arrested A Ilayaraja, 35, DMK’s Ottapidaram union secretary and Ottapidaram panchayat president, for abducting a dentist (senior intern) at the Thoothukudi Medical College and Hospital on Thursday. He took the victim to his farm house, thrashed him, took away his smartphone and also threatened him against filing a complaint with the police.
According to the police, P Murugan Perumal, 25, of Thirukazhukundram in Chengalpattu district, is doing his senior internship in the government medical college here. He was a relationship with a fellow female senior intern and had started intimidating her with pictures of the two and their mobile phone chats.
“The frightened girl informed her mother, who is a professor in a leading government aided arts and science college in Tuticorin. She had in turn sought help from Ilayaraja who is her former student to deal with the issue,” Tuticorin district SP S Jayakumar told TOI. On Thursday afternoon Ilayaraja and two of his accomplices abducted Muruga from the medical college in a car.
They took him to Ilayaraj’s farm house in Ottapidaram and beat him up with a rubber tube. Murugan suffered two small cuts on his head in the assault that lasted a few hours. The trio took awy his smart phone worth 70,000 and his wallet before dropping him at the medical college hospital, warning him to leave Tuticorin and that they would kill his family if he reported the incident to the police.
Murugan fled to his friend’s place in Madurai and informed his family. His family admitted him to the Thoothukudi Medical College and Hospital on Friday night, from where Murugan lodged a complaint with the Thoothukudi South Police. Ilayaraja and his accomplices were booked under six sections of the IPC including abduction and extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt.
The DMK functionary was arrested and the vehicle used for the abduction was also seized. A search was launched for his two accomplices.
