Kovilpalayam police have registered a case and are searching for the unidentified person who escaped.
Coimbatore: Police are searching for a unidentified person who snatched a 5-sovereign chain from an old woman who went to herd cattle in Coimbatore and escaped.
Subbanna Gounder hails from Kallipalayam area of Coimbatore SS Kulam and his wife Mayilathal (79). They are farming in their native land.
Yesterday Mayilathal came near the garden of her ‘Appichi’ to graze the cows and tied up the cows and sat down. An unidentified person who came there on a two-wheeler then asked her if he had land for sale in the area. He was apparently casually talking.
The unidentified person who claimed to be leaving then went a little farther and came back and snatched the 5-sovereign chain worn around Mayilathal’s neck and fled.
Those who were nearby there have seen the person running away as a result of the noise of Mayilathal but by then the unidentified person had escaped from there. Kovilpalayam police have registered a case and are searching for the mysterious person who escaped.
Subbanna Gounder hails from Kallipalayam area of Coimbatore SS Kulam and his wife Mayilathal (79). They are farming in their native land.
Yesterday Mayilathal came near the garden of her ‘Appichi’ to graze the cows and tied up the cows and sat down. An unidentified person who came there on a two-wheeler then asked her if he had land for sale in the area. He was apparently casually talking.
The unidentified person who claimed to be leaving then went a little farther and came back and snatched the 5-sovereign chain worn around Mayilathal’s neck and fled.
Those who were nearby there have seen the person running away as a result of the noise of Mayilathal but by then the unidentified person had escaped from there. Kovilpalayam police have registered a case and are searching for the mysterious person who escaped.