Residents gherao police team over rising theft cases

Sources said that a group of residents prevented the Triplicane Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) from visiting the locality, raised slogans against the cops, alleging that the police were not initiating any action even after a series of burglaries in Ice House.

Protestors claimed that as many as 20 house break-ins have been reported in the Ice House limits in the last six months and police, till date have not taken any effective steps to prevent burglaries. 

Following an assurance that investigation into burglary cases would be expedited, the residents withdrew their protest and allowed the police to visit the house of Faisal Ahamed (31), whose house was burgled on Sunday. Faisal’s house is located right opposite the Ice House police station, where 20 sovereigns of jewels, Rs 20,000 in cash and half a kg of silver were looted. 

Some residents said it has been happening all over the area and finally, burglars had now thrown a challenge to the cops by targeting a house right in front of the Ice House police station. At least after the Sunday heist, will the police swing into action, the residents asked. 

A woman bus passenger was relieved of her 23-sovereign chain on board an MTC bus on Sunday. Police said Saraswathy, wife of Balan, a local AIADMK functionary and a resident of Nammazhvarpettai, lost her gold chain while she was returning home from her relative’s house at Poonamallee. 

According to the complainant, two young women seated behind her, said that her chain was cut. Saraswathy found the chain cut and kept it inside her handbag. Later when the bus reached Nammazhvarpettai, she found her handbag cut open and the gold chain missing. The young women were also not to be found. Following this, Saraswathy lodged a complaint with the Secretariat Colony police.