Jos Alukkas burglary: Police arrest wife of burglar, recover 3 kg of gold jewellery
The Hindu
Police arrest wife of burglar & recover 3 kg of stolen gold jewellery in Coimbatore. Fingerprints match & 350 cameras analysed. Search for burglar intensified.
Two days after 4.6 kg of gold jewellery was stolen from a Jos Alukkas showroom in Coimbatore, the police on Thursday arrested the wife of the man involved in the burglary and recovered 3 kg of the jewellery.
City Police Commissioner V. Balakrishnan said the police were on the lookout for the burglar, M. Vijay, 25, of Devareddiyur in Dharmapuri district.
While Vijay’s wife V. Narmatha, 23, was arrested in Dharmapuri, he managed to escape from a house near Anamalai, where he sought shelter with the help of a friend.
Narmatha was aware of the burglary and concealed a portion of the stolen jewellery, Mr. Balakrishnan said.
Vijay was involved in two cases registered in Dharmapuri district and one in Coimbatore.
Fingerprints lifted from the jewellery showroom matched those of Vijay, which were maintained by the police in Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems.
The police also analysed visuals from over 350 surveillance cameras, including the ones inside the showroom, Mr. Balakrishnan added. It is learnt that Vijay escaped from the house near Anamalai, taking help from his former prison-mate Suresh, when a police team from Dharmapuri reached the spot to secure him for his involvement in a previous case. The special teams of the Coimbatore City Police, headed by Deputy Commissioners G. Chandeesh (Coimbatore North) and K. Shanmugam (Coimbatore South), have intensified the search for him.
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