Coimbatore: Three people have been arrested for stealing yarn worth Rs 1.75 lakh from a garment unit at Kamarajar Nagar on Perumanallur Road in Tirupur district. Police have recovered the stolen yarn from the trio.
The Tirupur North police identified the accused as R Harikrishnan, 20, of Kamarajar Nagar, M Gowtham, 28, of Theni district, and P Rajesh, 34, of Madurai.
An investigation officer said Rajesh and Gowtham, along with Pandi, a native of Chennai, had approached Sivakumar, who runs a garment unit on Perumanallur Road, to buy some machines.
“While the transaction was valued at Rs 8.50 lakh, the trio paid an advance of Rs 3 lakh last month and promised to settle the remaining amount within 60 days. The three were residing in rental rooms in the district,” the officer said.
The trio, however, called off the deal and asked Sivakumar to return the advance amount. Sivakumar sought some time to repay the same and asked them to wait until he sold the machines.
Gowtham and Rajesh decided to steal the machines from the garment unit, while Pandi tried his best to dissuade them from doing that, but in vain. “Meanwhile, Gowtham and Rajesh, along with Harikrishnan, a disgruntled employee of the unit that hadn’t paid him for more than two months, stole yarn worth Rs 1.74 lakh, 400kg banian clothes and the digital video recorder of CCTV cameras on December 3 when Sivakumar wasn’t in the unit,” the officer said.
Sivakumar lodged a complaint with the Tirupur North police, who registered a case under Section 381 of the Indian Penal Code on December 4 and formed a special team, which nabbed the trio on Saturday. All the three have been remanded in judicial custody.