After an elaborate search that went on for hours, the police here nabbed a teenager Mareeswaran (18) in a village on the outskirts of the city on Saturday, who was wanted by the Virudhunagar police for allegedly murdering a 13-year-old student at a government school near Aruppukottai.
Periyanaickenpalayam police attached to the Coimbatore district police received a tip-off in the morning from their counterparts in Virudhunagar that S. Mareeswaran of Iyankarasaikulam near Ettayapuram in Thoothukudi used to frequent his relative’s house here.
The police here were alerted that the location of mobile phone used by the accused was traced to Periyanaickenpalayam and also got Mareeswaran’s photograph. However, the police had to conduct a search within a six-km radius from the cellphone tower.
Around 2.15 p.m, a four-member police team in civil clothes spotted him at the house of his relatives, Gowri and her husband Paneerselvam, at Veerapandi. When the team got closer, the accused realised it was a police team.
The boy, who was initially calm, tried to escape, but was surrounded and nabbed. The Coimbatore police decided to hand over the accused to the police team from Aruppukottai which was on its way.
