The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Jewellery stolen from Virugambakkam house

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Wednesday, Apr 19, 2006

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Jewellery stolen from Virugambakkam house

Staff Reporter

The resident was asleep and the back door was kept open

CHENNAI: Jewellery weighing 11 sovereigns was stolen from a house in Virugambakkam on Monday night.

Police said Giridhara Gopalan, a resident of Elango Nagar 1st Street in Virugambakkam, was asleep and the back door was kept open, when the thieves entered the house. Mr. Gopalan left the keys in the bureau itself. Virugambakkam police have registered a case and are investigating. Virugambakkam police received another complaint from Vadivelu, a resident of Gandhi Nagar, Saligramam, who reported that some cash was missing from his house.

Police said Mr. Vadivelu, a former employee of the Railways, had kept his retirement cash benefits amounting Rs. 4.5 lakh in his house. On Monday, he noticed that the cash was missing.

The "Land Grabbing Cell" of the Central Crime Branch police arrested a woman employee of a nationalised bank on charges of cheating. Police said the bank employee, P.N. Thulasi (51), a special assistant at the Saidapet branch of the nationalised bank, agreed to sell her 2752 sq ft house at Pammal to Kumar, a builder. A sale agreement was prepared for the same in November last year.

Thulasi took Rs. 16 lakh from the builder and delayed in registering the property in his name. Attempts by Mr. Kumar to register the property proved futile. Following this, he lodged a complaint with the Chennai Metropolitan Police Commissioner R. Nataraj. The case was handed over to the CCB. A CCB team headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police D.W.Ebenezer arrested Thulasi.

Chit fund complaints

The CCB police handling "chit fund" complaints on Tuesday arrested a couple on cheating charges. Thenmozhi, one of the victims, said the couple, Vimala and her husband Jayaraman, were running a small chit fund company on Lal Mohammed Street in Chepauk. They were running the company for the past two decades. About 20 women became members and paid subscriptions to join a variety of chit groups. Till last year, the couple promptly paid the due amounts. In February this year, the couple suddenly vacated their house on Lal Mohammed Street, Ms. Thenmozhi said. When attempts by subscribers to trace the couple proved futile, they filed a police complaint. The case was handed over to the CCB.

The couple were arrested at Perambur.

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