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Police person arrested an auto-rickshaw operator for allegedly stealing a passenger’s golden chain, wristwatch and currency successful Pattinapakkam.
According to the police, the complainant, Rajarajan, 60, a retired technologist from Coimbatore, stated that his son, Srinishanth, a nonmigratory of the United States, attended a wedding astatine Raja Annamalaipuram successful MRC Nagar connected December 13, 2025, and boarded an auto-rickshaw to instrumentality to his destination.
In the aboriginal hours of December 14, the car operator contacted Rajarajan, claiming that his lad had fainted during the travel and that helium did not cognize wherever to driblet him. Rajarajan directed the operator to driblet his lad astatine a friend’s location successful Madipakkam. Police said the operator dropped Srinishanth astatine the determination and collected ₹8,000 from his person via integer mode, claiming it arsenic charges for roaming astir successful the car done the night.
After regaining consciousness aboriginal that morning, Srinishanth recovered that his golden chain, worthy 4 sovereigns, wristwatch, and ₹8,000 kept successful his purse, were missing. Suspecting the car driver’s role, Rajarajan lodged a ailment with the Pattinapakkam Police Station connected February 9.
Following an investigation, a constabulary squad led by the Crime Branch Inspector recovered that the operator had taken vantage of the rider losing consciousness to bargain the valuables. The stolen golden concatenation was aboriginal melted into a golden ingot.
Police arrested the car driver, identified arsenic Sabir Ahmed, 33, of Srinivasapuram. The recovered golden ingot weighed astir 30 grams. Further probe is nether way.
