CHENNAI: A gang of rowdies, apparently inspired by gangster Binu Pappachan who cut his birthday cake with a sword, attended similar celebrations for ‘Kung-Fu’ Kumar in a city suburb and were returning when one of them was nabbed on Saturday. Soon, three others were arrested.Based on an alert, patrolling police teams were told to stop SUVs bearing fancy numbers. A team intercepted a vehicle on De Mellows Road in Pulianthope and found rowdy Saravanan of Madhavaram . The team seized two sickles and swords from the vehicle.Based on his confession, police nabbed Siva of Kolathur; Gopal of Pulianthope, and his associate Ramesh. Police teams also seized two SUVs and eight sickles.“Saravanan and his gang members confessed that they had assembled to celebrate the birthday party of ‘Kung-Fu’ Kumar, of Villivakkam,” a police officer said.Saravanan had been involved in the murder of Kathiravan who had killed Kancheepuram priest Sankaraman. He was also a close aide of gangster Chinna and revealed plans to eliminate Chinna’s rival ‘Arcot’ Suresh to avenge the former’s murder.The arrest of the four by the Pulianthope police helped thwart the murder attempt, an officer said.“Saravanan told police that he was returning from the birthday party of Kumar, which many other goons had attended. The party was wrapped up early after they learned that police planned to round them up and the goons were on their way to their hideouts,” an investigating officer said.Based on their confession, police later arrested more suspects — Srinivasan, Dawood and Rajesh of Madhavaram and three others for plotting the murder of Suresh. They will be remanded in prison on Monday.

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