About 20 sovereigns of gold jewellery and cash were reportedly stolen from a car that was parked near Cheran Towers on Arts College Road on Thursday. According to the Race Course Police, the incident occurred when Y. Jayaprabha (40) of Nehru Nagar 1{+s}{+t}Street at Ramanathapuram had gone to a nearby hotel for coffee.
Detained under Goondas Act
Three more members of a gang were detained under Goondas Act for their involvement in the murder of a man at a farmhouse near Anamalai on February 28, over a financial dispute.
The three were M. Selvan (27), K. Arjunan alias Komban (23) and M. Sujith (26) all from Nagercoil in Kanyakumari District. Collector Archana Patnaik ordered the detention of Suresh and Rajesh under the Goondas Act on Wednesday.
Case registered
Race Course Police registered a case against K. Malayalam (54) of Royapettah, Chennai, on charges of cheating D. Haridasan (62) Papanaickenpalayam to the tune of Rs. 3.5 lakh. It was learnt that Haridasan approached Malayalam to obtain admission for his daughter in B.Com (CA) in a city college for which Malayalam demanded the said money. Haridasan was said to have deposited the money in various bank accounts of Malayalam from May 15 to July 25, 2014. Based on a direction from the court a case was registered against Malayalam under section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code.
Case against bank
The Race Course Police registered a case against employees of a private bank on Tiruchi Road on charges of auctioning 14 sovereigns of gold jewellery that the complainant pledged in the bank without informing him about the same.
The case was registered on Wednesday based on a direction from the court.
Police sources said that the complainant pledged the jewellery in May 2012.
The case was registered against four employees of the bank under sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or banker, merchant or agent), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 384 (extortion) read with 511 (attempt to commit offences) of the Indian Penal Code.
