4 construction workers arrested for repeatedly looting assets from house in Tirupur

The house owner is being interrogated by the income tax officials.


Tirupur: The Tirupur Police have arrested four construction workers who repeatedly stole from a house in Mangalam. The police seized cash and luxury cars from the four men. The house owner is however being interrogated by Income Tax officers.

Duraisamy, a native of Kulle Goundampalayam on Tirupur Mangalam Road runs a banian export company in Tirupur. His house is also on the same premises as his company. Duraisamy and his wife Dhanalakshmi are the only residents in the house since their three daughters are married. There is also an old house owned by Duraisamy, opposite the house they live in presently.

On January 3, Duraisamy had lodged a complaint with the police alleging that 2 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs. 1.5 lakh in cash were looted from his old house. Satheesh, a mason from Thiruvannamalai and his younger brother Sakthi,Damodaran and Radhakrishnan were arrested and questioned by the police in connection with the theft. The interrogation revealed shocking facts.



The police seized 30 sovereigns of gold jewellery, Rs. 16 lakh in cash, two luxury cars, two-wheelers and several property documents from the four men. When the police further interrogated Satheesh, it was discovered that in November 2020, when he and his workers had gone for construction work for the first time to the old house, they found a bundle of money packed in a room in the old house and robbed some money. Unkown to Duraisamy, the workers kept stealing small amounts of money from the house over a period of time. time to time.

However, when Duraisamy found money dwindling for the third time in January, he lodged a complaint at the police station. The police arrested the construction workers first on suspicion and interrogated them. During the investigation, it was found that they had looted money thrice totalling Rs. 2 crores.

Brothers Satheesh and Sakthi reportedly purchased a new car, a 'bullet' two-wheeler and all four had purchased houses in Tiruvannamalai, Veerapandi, Ganapathipalayam and Mangalam Road, two months ago. The police seized 30 sovereigns of gold jewellery worth Rs.16 lakh from the men, property documents, two cars and two-wheelers.

On the other hand, the Income Tax Department is interrogating Duraisamy, the owner of the export company in Tirupur who himself seems unaware of how much money was in his house.

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