Seven-member burglary gang busted in Tirupur

Tirupur: A burglary gang has been busted with the arrest of seven people, one of them a woman, in the city. The gang was reportedly involved in at least seven house break-ins reported in the city over the past couple of months. According to police, the woman was used by other members of the gang to fix the houses to be robbed.
The arrested were identified as Veera Babu alias Kutti, 21, of Thideer Nagar in Dindigul, Gurusakthi alias Kuruvi, 31, of Thanjavur district, Sathish Kumar, 42, of Selvapuram in Coimbatore, Venkatesan, 30, of Palavanchipalayam in Tirupur, Shankar, 36, of Jolarpet in Vellore, Ramesh, 30, of Thiruvika Nagar in Tirupur, and Geetha, 29, of Ammapalayam in Tirupur. All the seven were remanded in judicial custody.

It all started with police detaining Veera Babu during a vehicle check at Kovilvazhi police check post on Dharapuram Road. An accused in a murder for gain case, which is pending at Moolanur police station, police found during questioning that he was part of a burglary gang. He also spilled the beans on other members of the gang.

“Gurusakthi and Veera Babu met in Coimbatore Central Prison and they plotted to rob houses together. Sathish Kumar, another history-sheeter, also joined them. Gurusakthi has more than three dozen criminal cases pending against him,” said a senior police officer.

The gang utilised the auto carriage run by Venkatesan at Palavanchipalayam to plan their robberies. “They went from house to house in the pretext of seeking a rental house. Geetha would gather details about locked houses. After making sure that inmates are away, they used to strike at those houses at night,” the officer said.

Police suspect that the gang was involved in at least seven burglary cases reported in Anupparpalayam and a few other police station limits in the city.