“It was a voluntary telephone call from the owner of the house, where the alleged Maoist couple Roopesh and Shyna stayed in Tirupur, to the Tirupur City Police Commissioner office that helped the investigators realise that they had stayed in Tirupur”.
Disclosing this to The Hindu , senior city police officers said that the house owner made the call soon after he learnt of the news of the arrest of the five suspected Maoists in on TV.
“Since ‘Q’ Branch police are investigating the case, we passed the details of the stay and the location of the house to them,” said sources in the city police. “Soon after Roopesh, his wife and three others were surrounded by police at a tea stall at Karumathampatti, a message was immediately communicated to the children of Roopesh, who were staying in the Tirupur house, asking them to escape. The children then approached the house owner and told him that they had to rush to Kerala as one of their grandparents had fallen sick. They requested him to help board a bus to Coimbatore. Since Roopesh and the family always behaved politely, the house owner ‘helped’ the children,” the police officer explained.
City Police Commissioner S. N. Seshasai told this newspaper that the city police from now on would be insisting on the owners of buildings to furnish details of their tenants to the nearest police stations.
House owner made the call soon after he learnt of the news of the arrest of the five suspected Maoists in on TV
