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His revelations baffled police since a jeweller’s name figured on top of the list of accused, according to L. Srikrishna When the Melur police were on the lookout for some ‘known’ offenders in the Rs.10 lakh gold missing case, a college student’s confession successfully set the stage for unravelling the crime, the police say. On September 3, a goldsmith from Madurai had lodged a complaint with the Melur police stating that some unidentified persons forcibly took away the bag from him which contained about one kilogram of gold jewellery valued at Rs.10 lakh. The college student’s revelations baffled many police personnel since a jeweller’s name figured on top of the list of accused. “We were stunned because it was the jeweller who initially helped the victim (complainant) in lodging the complaint with us,” Inspector of Police M. Ramachandran said. Following the violence at the Law College in Chennai, the police closely monitored the movement of students throughout the State. Any person (student) whose name figured in criminal case(s), the station house officers concerned were directed to check their whereabouts. When a team of police personnel, led by Inspector Mr. Ramachandran, went in search of Velumani, the college student, he was not available at his residence. However, he appeared before the police the following day. As he was involved in a criminal case, the police interrogated him about his whereabouts, during the course of which, he allegedly confessed to having committed the offence from the goldsmith at a jeweller’s shop in Melur. Along with three other friends, Velumani had committed the crime and handed over the booty to the jeweller Gowri (who figured as the main accused) and escaped in a mofussil bus to a neighbouring destination that night. The subsequent day, Gowri had given some money to Velumani and his accomplices who went to the Nilgiris and other places, the police came to know it during the investigation. Velumani was entrusted with the job of lifting the bag as he was not known to the locals, another police officer said. A police officer who supervised the investigation said that right from the beginning they had the needle of suspicion pointing at the jeweller Gowri as the ‘mastermind.’ “We have sufficient evidence to prove his involvement in the court,” he maintained. The officer’s observation that Gowri has links with a political functionary in Sivaganga district is another story. Superintendent of Police M. Manohar, who appreciated the Melur police, said that the crime graph in the district had dipped substantially with this major recovery.
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