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The constabulary person arrested 1 much person, a nonmigratory of Bengaluru, successful transportation with the theft of hard disks from the office of Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (TNPDCL) connected Anna Salai successful Chennai.
Based connected a ailment lodged connected June 1 by employees of the TNPDCL headquarters, regarding the disappearance of hard disks from bureau computers, a lawsuit was registered astatine the Chintadripet constabulary presumption nether the Triplicane constabulary district, and an probe was launched.
Five peculiar teams were formed to probe the case. During the preliminary investigation, constabulary recovered that the hard disks had been stolen from employees’ computers astatine the TNPDCL office connected May 18. Further probe revealed that the theft was committed by Gopinath, a declaration worker moving for a backstage institution engaged successful yearly attraction contract services astatine the TNPDCL headquarters.
Gopinath, 31, is simply a nonmigratory of Arakkonam taluk successful Ranipet district. The peculiar teams arrested Gopinath connected Thursday. Based connected his confession, the constabulary recovered each the stolen hard disks from Murali Manohar, 32, the proprietor of a commercialized constitution successful Bengaluru South, Karnataka.
During the investigation, the constabulary besides seized machine spare parts allegedly stolen by Gopinath portion moving arsenic a declaration worker astatine different companies. In total, 34 hard disks and 20 RAM modules were recovered, including the properties linked to the contiguous case, the constabulary said.
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Murali Manohar was besides arrested and produced earlier the tribunal for further ineligible proceedings.
The constabulary said efforts were nether mode to retrieve the information stored connected the recovered hard disks by pursuing owed ineligible procedures. The probe is continuing from aggregate angles based connected technological grounds and different leads gathered during the probe into the theft.
