The Coimbatore City Police have arrested two persons and recovered over 100 sovereign jewellery on Monday. A special team of the police, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime, K. Sugumaran, and Inspector, Saravanampatty, S. Elango picked up the two persons near K.G. Street when the they attempted to sell the stolen jewellery. Mr. Elango said that the police team got a tip off that two persons were at a pawn broker shop trying to sell the jewellery.
The team rushed to the place and arrested the two, identified as P. Palanisamy of Udumalpet, Tirupur, and C. Jayaraj of Allinagaram, Theni. The police said that the two had stolen the jewellery by breaking open Sureshkumar’s house in January this year and Rangaraj’s house in March this year in Saravanampatty police station limits. They had stolen 57 sovereign from the first house and 44 from the second.
During the course interrogation, the two told the police they camped with their families in residential colonies to identify locked houses. The women folk would first go around the area under the guise of selling brooms, toys and fancy goods. The men would follow it up with another round under the guise of selling mat. Once they were convinced of the absence of people in the targeted houses, they would drop screwdriver, iron rods, hacksaw blades, etc. in bushes near the house to pick them up later while committing the offence. The two would then go to cinema at night and proceed from there to the houses to break open the doors to gain entry.
Youth commits suicide
Alagesan, a native of Tirunelveli, committed suicide at his uncle’s residence in Ramanathapuram on Monday by hanging as he could not get a job.
Activists removed
The police on Tuesday removed over 800 members of various workers’ union who staged protest demanding implementation of labour-friendly laws.
Life sentence
The Second Additional District Judge in Tirupur D. Elangovan on Tuesday sentenced P. Murugesan to life sentence for murdering K. Mylsamy at Kamanacikenpalayam on March 3, 2009.
