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Leading comedians Vivekh and M S Baskar are now gearing up to do roles with shades of grey. Chennai Times gets talking to them.

A 25-year-old murder accused who assaulted a police inspector and tried to flee was fired at by the inspector near Chengalpet, about 55km from Chennai, on Friday morning. Both are undergoing treatment at the Chengalpet government hospital.

Well known comedian M S Baskar had a lucky escape recently after the car he was travelling in met with an accident at Mullai Gate, a place located 20 km from Pollachi.

While others her age are poring over comics, seven-year-old Bakkiashri Baskar reads tomes on anatomy, pharmacology and ophthalmology.

The trial court discarded reliable evidence wholly on untenable grounds, placing undue emphasis on minor discrepancies and trivial contradictions, which do not go to the root of the prosecution case. Such an approach amounts to a clear misappreciation of evidence and renders the acquittal perverse, the court said.

Health minister C Vijaya Baskar rescued an accident victim and rushed him to the hospital in his escort vehicle while he was returning from a function near Viralimalai in Pudukottai district on Thursday.

The Madras high court has slammed a litigant, who had alleged ‘malpractices’ in the filing of a PIL with regard to allotment of shops in Koyambedu wholesale market and other places under minister’s quota, and also slapped Rs 50,000 cost on him.

Police have arrested a class 8 student along with two others for murdering of a 69-year-old woman and throwing her charred body in the bushes near Thiruperumbudhu.

District collector V Sampath issued an order on Thursday to arrest eight accused under the Goondas Act.The accused were involved in two different murder cases.

Close on the heels of three people being taken for a ride by three conmen posing as IT and CBI officials, the city police on Thursday arrested five men who had posed as income tax officers and made away with Rs 3.3 lakh from a shop owner in Parrys a fortnight ago.

The district consumer disputes redressal commission has directed a private hospital at Palladam to pay a compensation of 7 lakh to a woman for medical negligence. The woman underwent a surgery at the hospital in August, when the surgeons left a piece of cotton in her uterus.

Shaken by 13 drownings in the sea off the Marina over the past 50 days, police have strengthened the emergency mechanism including publicising WhatsApp numbers to receive alerts. On Wednesday, two juveniles including an ITI student were feared dead after they were dragged in by huge waves in separate incidents.

A transgender woman was arrested on Wednesday on charges of murdering a 28-year-old man at K K Nagar here on September 6. Police said Vaishnavi, 35, of Mannarpuram had beaten K Baskar, of Poonam Palayam village in Mannachanallur, to death in an argument over money for sex.

A new set of office-bearers headed by senior advocate R Muthukumaraswamy has assumed charge at the Madras Bar Association (MBA).Muthukumaraswamy, a designated senior counsel for former additional advocate-general of Tamil Nadu, is the new president.