Coimbatore: An autorickshaw, which was parked on roadside at Anjugam Nagar at Chinnavedampatti, went up in flames in the early hours of Saturday.
The Saravanampatti (law & order) police said S Karthikeyan, 24, of Muniyappan Temple Street, had parked his auto in front of his house around 10pm on Friday, before he went to sleep. “Around 1.50am on Saturday, his neighbour T Vignesh saw the auto in flames and alerted him.”
Residents in the area put out the fire and informed the Saravanampatti police. Karthikeyan hadn’t, however, lodged a police complaint till Saturday evening.
Preliminary inquiry revealed that the auto’s registration certificate was with a private finance firm under hypothecation. Karthikeyan had bought the auto in his wife’s name in 2018.TNN