Peelamedu Police have picked up four persons for questioning for their alleged involvement in the robbery that took place on Sept. 14.
The four were suspected to have robbed 3.30 kg gold jewellery and 4.81 kg silver ware from two employees of a jewellery firm, P. Venkatasamy and M. Krisna Priya, at Bharathi Colony, Peelamedu when they were on their way to the jewellery store. The four were on two motorcycles and fled the scene after taking away the valuables. Before fleeing the place, the four suspects had also attacked the taxi driver.
Two arrested
Thudiyalur Police have arrested Babu Raj from Odisha and Thulasimani of Thudiyalur on charges of murdering the latter’s 67-year-old mother-in-law Bakiyalakshmi. The police said that soon after a complaint was lodged on September 28 on Bakiyalakshmi’s death, they had invoked the section related to unnatural death to investigate the complaint.
The post-mortem, however, revealed that the woman was murdered and the investigation pointed to the involvement of Raj and Thulasimani, who they arrested on Wednesday. The police said that Thulasimani had engaged Raj to finish off her mother-in-law due to a property dispute.
TTE injured
A 70-year-old train passenger from Thiruvananthapuram, Sudhakaran, on Wednesday assaulted travelling ticket examiner Suresh when the latter asked him to move from a reserved compartment to the general compartment.
The Coimbatore Railway Police said that Sudhakaran, who had only an open ticket, took exception to the Suresh’s direction and assaulted him with the knife he carried.
