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A pawnbroker surrendered earlier the colony administrative (VAO) of Chinnavedampatti successful Coimbatore connected Thursday, aft murdering a woman, who pledged imitation jewellery for golden loan.
The Saravanampatti constabulary arrested the pawnbroker, identified arsenic M. Rajaram (53) of GPM Nagar astatine Rathinapuri successful the city.
The constabulary said that P. Sudha (39) of Samalpatti successful Krishnagiri territory visited Rajaram’s pawnshop connected December 8 and pledged a portion of jewellery for ₹30,000. She visited the store again connected December 9 and 12 erstwhile she availed herself of ₹32,000 and ₹75,000 respectively by pledging ornaments. The pistillate had fixed her sanction arsenic Sumathi.
Meanwhile, Rajaram grew suspicious astir the ornaments pledged by the pistillate and got them appraised by a golden appraiser. All the ornaments pledged by the pistillate for a full sum of ₹1,37,000 were recovered to beryllium gold-plated ones. He further recovered retired that the code provided by the pistillate was besides fake.
As Rajaram was connected the lookout for the woman, she visited the store again connected Wednesday with different portion of jewellery for pledging.
According to the police, Rajaram, his person Mahendran and others took the pistillate to a sweets store tally by the erstwhile adjacent Athipalayam roadworthy astatine Saravanampatti connected Thursday evening and questioned her for pledging imitation jewellery. They assaulted her with PVC pipes and woody reapers. She died of aggregate injuries.
The constabulary said that Rajaram surrendered earlier Chinnavedampatti VAO G. Pandi (50) and confessed to the execution connected Thursday. The VAO handed implicit the antheral to the Saravanampatti police. Inspector Nirmala Devi said Rajaram was arrested and remanded. The constabulary were connected the lookout for Mahendran and others progressive successful the crime.
