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Sridhar Dhanapalan, ‘Dawood of TN’ consumes cyanide in Cambodia
5 October 2017
- Sridhar Dhanapalan, an illegal arrack seller turned land dealer who was once known as the “Dawood of Tamil Nadu”, allegedly committed suicide by taking cyanide in Cambodia, top police sources said on Wednesday.

Dhanapalan’s Indian passport had been blocked and he was being closely tracked by various agencies, including the Interpol.

The wanted land dealer, who at one point was in Dubai, had moved to Cambodia via Colombo.

“The incident (Dhanapalan’s death) was reported around 8pm on Wednesday. He was reportedly brought dead to a hospital in Cambodia after he took cyanide. Before his suicide, he called up his associates in Kancheepuram and told them he was going to die. He told them that the police was the main reason for his death as he was not able to come back to India,” said a senior officer...

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindi ... li=AAggbRN

Cyanide? Of all the ways to go he chooses Cyanide?
Did he eat apricot pits? Who the fuk offs themselves with cyanide?
I thought that stuff was for Agatha Christie novels.

Cyanide does seem slightly melodramatic, but it seems he was a melodramatic kind of guy. Cambodia really attracts the world's finest.

Dhanapalan was known for attacks on people who refused to agree to his land deals.

One of his last encounters with Tamil Nadu police was in January 2016 when he dialled the number of a Kancheepuram police station inspector, threatening he would blow up all police stations in the area if his men were not released from custody. He wanted the officer to convey the message to the DGP.

What had provoked Dhanapalan was the arrest of his seven associates, among them his brother, under the Goonda Act.

At least 18 cases against Dhanapalan were awaiting trial, including one murder and six attempts to murder.

Even after his passport was cancelled, he used to travel to Colombo where he would summon owners of properties in Tamil Nadu he wanted to buy raising death threats.

CHENNAI: A week after Sridhar Dhanapalan 's alleged suicide in Cambodia , his daughter Dhanalakshmi, who is trying to bring her father's body back to India, has approached the Madras high court seeking the intervention of state government to give her father a decent cremation.

On Monday, she filed a petition seeking directives to the Kancheepuram superintendent of police and district collector to issue a positive communication to the Indian High Commission in Cambodia, so that they could initiate steps to bring her father's body to India.

https://m.timesofindia.com/city/chennai ... 014550.cms