Coimbatore: The city police are on the lookout for the miscreant, who attempted to steal from the Pattatharasi Amman Temple at Ganapathy of Tuesday night.
Temple priest Kuppusamy, who noticed the burglary attempt on Wednesday morning, alerted the Saravanampatti police. “The temple’s grill was forced open and the burglar tried to open the hundi. We lifted fingerprints from the spot and are analysing footage from CCTV cameras in the locality,” a police officer said.
Meanwhile, a 63-year-old Idayarpalayam resident lost her five-sovereign gold chain to a snatcher on Tuesday evening. C Manickam was on the front yard of her house when a motorcycle-borne man approached her on the pretext of verifying an address, police sources said.
The Kuniyamuthur police have registered a case.