Date:31/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/31/stories/2008103161300500.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Gang held, weapons seized

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: A six-member gang , which was found planning to commit a major offence, was apprehended by the police in Red Hills here on Thursday.

Police said C. Dhanasekharan (26) of Annai Sivagami Nagar, Ennore, who was an accused in a murder case, and five others of the same area were nabbed when they were conspiring to attack members of a rival gang.

Deadly weapons were also confiscated from the gangsters.

Dhanasekharan had come out on bail from the Puzhal central prison recently.

The accused were produced in a city court.

They were remanded to judicial custody, the police added.