Coimbatore: The Tirupur city police on Tuesday arrested three men, including an advocate, for stealing gold jewellery and cash from the house of a garment company owner at MS Nagar in the city.
The arrested men were identified as advocate S Manoj Kumar, 31, D Annamalai, 30, and T Manikandan, 30, natives of Trichy district. Police recovered 53 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs 3 lakh from them.
The victim, Sreenivasan, who returned from his morning walk on November 1, was shocked to find the front door of his house broke open and 87 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs 12 lakh kept in a cupboard missing.
While going through CCTV footage collected from a nearby building, police noticed a four-wheeler parked in front of the house at the time of the burglary. “Even though the number plate was captured on the camera, a number had worn off. We tried to find the missing number by trial-and-error and identified the owner of the vehicle. We tracked down the vehicle at Kuzhithalai in Karur district,” said a police officer.
A police team reached Karur to arrest the accused under sections 454 (house-breaking) and 380 (theft in building) of the Indian Penal Code. They are on the lookout for two more people.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that Annamalai was staying near the victim’s house and had informed the advocate about the affluent businessman. The advocate hatched the burglary plan,” the officer added.