Published: 27th April 2015
VELLORE: All units of police were placed on high alert after notorious gangster Vasur Raja jumped bail in a murder case on Saturday night, three days after he was acquitted in an attempt-to-murder case
Police are worried this could revive gang war in the Fort city as Raja’s rival ‘Athiradi’ Maha (alias) Mahalingam (32) is already out on bail. Sources in the police department said this is the first time, after two years, that both Raja and Mahalingam are out on bail at the same time.
“If they remain outside prison for two months, one of them will be the next victim of gang war. Bloodshed will be inevitable as they harboured so much vendetta against each other, ” said a police officer of the Organised Crime Investigation Unit (OCIU).
The two gangsters and their accomplices were lodged in different prisons in connection with various crimes for the last two years which brought an end to gang war in Vellore.
The incident on April 10, 2012 on the premises of the Vellore District Combined Courts Complex was one of the attempts by Raja to eliminate Mahalingam and his associates.“The incident sent shock waves across the State. The State government reviewed security arrangements in court premises and beefed up security arrangements,” recalled the inspector on condition of anonymity. Though the gangsters were jailed, they continued to operate at will. In fact, Maha masterminded several killings remaining inside the prison. The murder of a realtor, Krishnan, in 2010 in Thusi Police Station in Tiruvannamalai was one among them. On the other hand, Raja threatened and extorted several middlemen, businessmen in Sathuvachari and also fellow convicts and his families.
According to a police officer, both of them have established links with other gangs in northern districts during their imprisonment.
Police were trying to get life imprisonment for Raja for the abduction and murder of a pawnshop owner Muthukumar (26) on February 19, 2014. Though Maha along with his associate Kuppan was sentenced to life imprisonment in CMC PRO’s murder case, he appealed against the verdict.
“We have taken all the efforts to get life imprisonment for Raja in Muthukumar’s case,” said a senior police officer.
Gang War: The gang war, which has been going for over eight years, resulted in string of brutal killing. It all started with the killing of Sankar in 2009. Sankar was elder brother of notorious rowdy Suriya, who known for extortion and threatening of several persons, including government employees. Maha attempted on Suriya’s life and killed his brother due to mistaken identity in dark hours in 2009.
Gang War: The gang war, which has been going for over eight years, resulted in string of brutal killing. It all started with the killing of Sankar in 2009. Sankar was elder brother of notorious rowdy Suriya, who known for extortion and threatening of several persons, including government employees. Maha attempted on Suriya’s life and killed his brother due to mistaken identity in dark hours in 2009.
Though Suriya was looking for opportunity to eliminate Maha, the latter bumped off Suriya near Vellore Collectorate in 2010. After the death of Suriya, Vasur Raja emerged and he wanted to kill Maha to settle score for the death of his associate Suriya.
It subsequently resulted in two more murder - Bharath (murdered in 2012) and G G Ramesh (hacked to death in 2014), both done by Maha and his associate Kuppan. “Bharath was promised of Rs 5 lakh to kill his associate Maha by Ramesh’s close relatives. But Maha learnt about this discreet plot and tricked Bharath to stabbed him to death in 2012,” said the police official privy to the investigation of the case.
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Mahalingam , son of retired VAO Hari Padurangan and resident of VAdukankuttai in Katpadi. Out of eight cases against him, six are murder cases. He was the prime accused in CMC PRO Johan Segar’s murder case. He was prime accused in five other murder cases of Sankar (2009), Suriya (2010). Krishnan (2010) and Bharath (2012)
His associates: Appu (alias) Rajendran (23) and Banu (alias) Paul Jayakanthan (41) and Kuppan .(aged about 33 years, who came out on bail and disappeared, of Vellore. He has link with other gangsters Gabriel.
Vasur Raja, son of an ex-serviceman and resident of Pudu Vasur.
Of the 16 cases, two were murder case. He murdered one Praveen Kumar (26) and burnt in his body in August 2011 in Latheri Police Station limit. He abducted and murdered one Muthukumar (26) of Sathuvachari on February 2014.
He was acquitted in four cases of attempt to murder cases and robbery. Two more cases were pending against him.
His associates: K Balaji (27) of Sathuvachri, A Raja (30) and J Mahendran (28) of Pudupalayam, Chengam Taluk, Tiruvannamalai, Udhaya (then 27), Sathiya (27) of Vellore Old Town, Basha (27) and Nashiya Abbash (28) of Konavattam. /eom/shan/
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