Unidentified persons set fire to the house of an Assistant Jailor attached to the Cuddalore Central Prison at M. Pudur in Cuddalore in the early hours of Sunday.
According to police, the incident took place at around 3 a.m. in the jailors’ quarters. The family members of Manikandan, who works as an Assistant Jailor in the Cuddalore Central Prison at Kepparmalai, were sleeping inside the house when unidentified persons poured a bottle containing an inflammable liquid through the window grill in the kitchen in the house and set it on fire.
Mr. Manikandan was on medical leave and had left for Thanjavur while his parents, wife, and two children were at the house at the Jail quarters in M. Pudur. Seeing the fire, the family members, who were sleeping in a room in the house, raised an alarm and ran out of the house.
