Man arrested for burglary

Coimbatore: The city police arrested a 28-year-old man on Wednesday for stealing 20 sovereigns of gold ornaments from a house on LIC Colony at Selvapuram here.
The arrested person was identified as N Selvaraj, a native of Goripalayam in Madurai, a labourer. He was staying with his family at Telungupalayam in Coimbatore city. “He stole the ornaments from the house of J Saravana Ashokkumar, a motorcycle mechanic.Ashokkumar’s family had left for a relative’s house and he was alone on Tuesday. He locked the ground floor door and was sleeping on the first floor. Selvaraj reached there around 2am and noticed the locked house. He broke open the lock to steal the valuables,” a police officer said.
The Selvapuram police collected CCTV footage from the locality and nabbed Selvaraj on Wednesday afternoon. He was remanded in judicial custody and lodged in Sathyamangalam sub-jail.TNN