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Burglar nabbed

CHENNAI: The Ice House police received a call for help around 1 a.m. from Raghav Sharma on Friday, who said that a thief had escaped with cell phones from his house.

According to the police, Mr. Sharma and his wife were asleep when the thief gained entry into the second floor flat through the provision made for air-conditioner. The noise woke up Susheela Sharma, who raised an alarm. The thief fled. Mr. Sharma informed the police, who called the thief on Mr. Sharma’s mobile. The thief attended the call and said that he would kidnap Mr. Sharma’s nine-year-old son if he was not paid Rs. 2 lakh.

The inspector, who identified himself as Mr. Sharma, bargained for a lower price and the thief arranged to meet him near Udhayam theatre in K.K. Nagar.

The police, in plainclothes, followed Mr. Sharma and arrested the thief, Zakir Hussain. He had been in jail for eight years under the Goondas Act after he tried to throw a bomb at the police in Mylapore in 2001. .

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