The Coimbatore City Police Commissioner, A.K. Viswanathan, has detained two persons under the Goondas Act for allegedly murdering an engineer of the city on May 25, this year.
A release from the Commissioner’s office stated that a gang of four robbed gold jewellery and money from M. Ramanarayanan (30) and killed him by throwing him into a corporation dump pit at Ukkadam. “Four persons were arrested in connection with the incident and lodged in the Central Prison here. Two of them – E. Mohammed Farooq alias Farooq alias Manguni Farooq and C. Abdul Rahman – were involved in similar incidents in the past, due to which a recommendation was made to the Commissioner to detain them under the Goondas Act,” the police said. A total of 23 persons have been detained under the Goondas Act by the City Police in 2014.
House burgled Twenty-nine sovereigns of gold jewellery worth more than Rs. 6 lakh was burgled from a farmer’s house at Kelanatham village, near Kovilpalayam, on Wednesday night. The police said that they collected finger prints from the crime scene.