May 24, 2011

Police recover jewellery, four held


Prompt action:Krishnagiri Superintendent of Police C. Maheshwari (middle)
having a look at the recovered jewellery at the District Police Office on Saturday. —

KRISHNAGIRI: Police have recovered 39.5 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs. 35,000 cash that were stolen from the house of a Border Security Force constable M. Manohar in Shoolagiri on Wednesday night and from a private company official Thangaraj at Mathigiri and from his wife in the residence in Hosur on May 5.

Four persons were arrested in this connection.

Superintendent of Police C. Maheswari told reporters here on Saturday that five special teams were formed for investigation.

The culprits in the Shoolagiri house-breaking case were caught during a vehicle check near Kuruparanthapalli when they were going in a bike on the Bangalore-Krishnagiri National Highway in the early hours on Saturday. The jewellery pledged with one of their relatives was recovered and handed over to the owner. Those arrested are N. Anandakumar and P. Nagendran, both hailing from Shoolagiri.

During investigation, both of them confessed that they were also involved in another theft case reported in a locked shop in Shoolagiri from which Rs. 16,000 was looted.

The duo was produced before a local court and was remanded to judicial custody.

In connection with robbing at knife-point a private company official Thangaraj at Mathigiri and from his wife in the residence by masked men in Hosur on May 5, two persons R. Rajesh and his school mate A. Sudhakar were arrested by the special teams at Bharathi Nagar in Hosur on Friday.

The culprits were trapped with the help of the mobile phone they had used while robbing Thangaraj and his wife.

Ms. Maheshwari also gave away cash rewards to the special teams.

R.V. Ramya Bharati, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Hosur, R. Senthil Kumar, Additional Superintendent of Police, and other police officials were present.

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