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Cricketer death: FIR on organisers quashed
The New Indian Express
|November 05, 2024
THE Madras High Court has quashed an FIR registered against organisers of a local cricket match in Tiruvallur district over the death of a player after suffering a fatal hit in the chest by a cork ball darting off a bat.
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The FIR was registered under section 304 of IPC for culpable homicide not amounting to murder by the Pullarambakkam police following the death of D Loganathan, who was a third-year law student, during a match held on December 13, 2020 at Othikadu lake between Punnapakkam cricket club and Puduvallur cricket club.
This story is from the November 05, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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