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Woman alone at home assaulted, robbed

Staff Reporter

In another incident at Thoraipakkam, house burgled

They asked for her husband’s mobile number
She went inside; then the gang barged in

TAMBARAM: A woman alone at home in Vettuvankeni near Neelankarai was assaulted by a four-member gang and robbed of jewellery on Monday evening. In another incident, at Thoraipakkam, jewellery weighing 63 sovereigns was stolen from a locked house.

Police said Saroja (40) and her husband Karthikeyan, a State government employee, were staying in the first floor of their house in Cheran Nagar, Vettuvankeni. The victim was alone in the house, after her husband left for work in the morning.

The couple had put up a ‘To Let’ board on the main gate. Around 3 p.m., four men came to the house and made enquiries about the vacant portion. Saroja asked the men to contact her husband. The men asked her for her husband’s mobile number and when she went inside the house to fetch a pen and a piece of paper to write down the number, the gang barged into the house and assaulted her. They pulled out a knife and threatened her, police said, adding they took away gold jewels weighing around 14 sovereigns from the house.

Around the same time, burglars took away gold jewellery weighing 63 sovereigns from the house of a provision store owner in V.N. Street, Sholinganallur.

Govindaraju, hailing from Tirunelveli district, left to tend his shop in the morning and his wife, Jayakodi, left the house around 3 p.m. to fetch their four children from school. When she returned about half-an-hour later, she noticed the front door broken open. The almirah was ransacked and the gold jewels burgled, police said. They added that the culprits used an iron rod to break open the lock of the front door. As the almirah’s keys were placed on top of it, the culprits easily took away jewels, they added.

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