Date:23/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/23/stories/2008072353300200.htm

Tamil Nadu - Tirunelveli

Beggar couple “robbed by policeman”

Staff Reporter

TIRUNELVELI: A couple, who are begging around Tirunelveli Junction to feed their two children, on Monday forwarded a complaint to the Tirunelveli City Police Commissioner seeking action against robbers led by a policeman, who beat and steal money from the beggars.

According to K. Kavitha, who is begging along with her husband P. Kannan and collecting metal scrap and plastic products to augment their earning, said her husband was robbed of Rs.200 on July 18 by one ‘Police Murali’ and in the second incident, her brother Antony, a physically disabled youth, lost Rs.630 to this law-enforcer on last March 4.

“The most painful day in my life was October 22, 2007, as ‘Police Murali’ and three others threatened me and took my savings of Rs.1,200,” she wept.