Teacher robbed of 9.25 sovereigns gold

Coimbatore: A three-member gang robbed a 46-year-old woman of 9.25 sovereigns of gold ornaments at Kembanur near Karamadai here on Thursday night.
The victim, C Anitha, a teacher in an elementary school at Pungampalayam, was alone in her farmhouse at the time of the incident. “Three people, who had covered their face using masks, barged into the house and brandished sickles. They forced her to remove a five-sovereign gold chain, a pair of gold bangles and a pair of gold earrings,” a police officer said.
When the gang tried to tie her to a chair, Anitha cried for help. “The miscreants fled with the valuables when her relative Prasad reached there,” the officer told TOI.
Their neighbours alerted the Karamadai police, who registered a case under sections 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery), 397 (robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) and 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code.
Anitha’s husband Chandrasekaran is a farmer. Their son is working in the US.
“The gang members were speaking in Tamil. We have formed three special teams to nab them,” said superintendent of police S P Sujit Kumar.