Man who stole bike, mobile phone held

Coimbatore: A 21-year-old man has been arrested for stealing a cutting machine and a mobile phone from an iron scrap shop at Ravathur Pirivu near Sulur on Friday.
Police identified the accused as C Parattai alias Surya, a native of Alagarsamy Puram near Periyakulam in Theni district.
A police officer said Surya had entered the scrap shop that was run by 39-year-old A Sakthivel, of Selvalakshmipuram, by jumping the fence on Friday morning and made away with the valuables.
Sakthivel lodged a complaint with the Sulur police, who registered a case under Sections 380 and 454 of the Indian Penal Code and arrested Surya in the evening. He was produced before a judicial magistrate, who remanded him in judicial custody.
During the interrogation, Surya told police that he had stolen a motorcycle from Kottai Pirivu Road at Periyanaickenpalayam on Thursday. “It was stolen when its owner K Murugasamy, of Ganapathy in the city, had parked the vehicle at his fabrication business firm and gone home. Murugasamy had lodged a police complaint in this regard on Friday. A formal arrest will be made in this case too,” the officer said.