Angered over probe, history-sheeter locks up Madurai cop in police station

MOVIES have their impact, and at times, they instill a false sense of courage, the wherewithal.Just like a scene taken out from a Kollywood flick, a history-sheeter, along with his friend, locked a head constable in a room inside the V Chatrapatti police station and damaged the station's properties, as the police were allegedly targeting him, his family and friends.

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The head constable had to languish hours inside the room, until Saturday morning when his colleagues turned up for duty.

The district police have formed special teams to nab the suspect who is on the run.

The police said the incident happened around 1 am on Saturday at the police station under the Peraiyur sub-division when head constable V Palpandi was on night duty. He was alone at the station. Two persons — including the history-sheeter, M Prabakaran, alias Porali Prabakaran from V Chatrapatti — assumed that the personnel from the station had taken Prabakaran's father, Muthuvel, for inquiry and had a heated argument with Palpandi.

However, Muthuvel was, in fact, picked up by the Dindigul police and was released later.