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Burglars loot mobile handsets from showroom

Staff Reporter

Escape with 170 expensive handsets worth about Rs 5.50 lakh

CHENNAI : Unidentified persons barged into a locked mobile phone dealer's showroom late on Wednesday night on Poonamalee High Road and escaped with 170 expensive handsets worth about Rs 5.50 lakh.

The police said the shop situated near the Anna Nagar arch has branches in Besant Nagar, Adyar and Nanganallur.

The shopkeeper, who opened the showroom on Thursday morning, found the handsets missing.

It is suspected that the thieves might have entered the shop by removing the window-type air-conditioner.

The police have lifted fingerprint samples from the scene of crime.

The police arrested a woman, who was working as a maid in the residence of a Central Government official in Ganpathraj Nagar in Virugambakkam police station limits and recovered gold jewels weighing 20 sovereigns.

The police gave the name of the woman as Poongavanam alias Poongodi (35) Kallakurichi near Villupuram district.

She was remanded to judicial custody on September 20. Subsequently, the police took her in custody on September 21 and investigations revealed that she had pledged the valuables with a pawnbroker in Mumbai. Based on her confession, the valuables and two mobile phones were recovered. The Commissioner of Police Letika Saran commended the DCP (T. Nagar), Baskaran and his team for resolving the case within a short period, a press note said.

A six-year-old boy and his infant brother were admitted to Stanley Medical College on Thursday with cut wounds inflicted allegedly by their father who, later, attempted to commit suicide.

According to the police, Sulaiman Sait, a casual labourer living in Gandhi Nagar in Kodungaiyur, inflicted the wounds on his kids Abdul Rahman (6) and Faizal Ahmed (one-and-half years).

Sait used a blade to slit his two children and later himself. The three were rushed to the hospital where the doctors saved the kids. The police have registered a case of attempt to murder against Sait and would arrest him after he is discharged. Further investigations are on.

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