The South India times Chennai: Chennai police on Tuesday arrested six persons who posed as policemen and robbed Rs 24.4 lakh from a gold trader near Parry’s corner, two weeks ago. On August 10, S Bashe er Ahmed (55) of Royapettah was walking near the TNPSC (Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission) headquarters in the park town area, with the cash bag when the gang who came on two-wheelers intercepted him.
Police sources said that Basheer was on his way to a goldsmith unit in Sow carpet to buy finished jewelry when he was robbed. The suspects, who were in plain clothes, took him to the side of the road and snatched the cash bag from him, under the pretext of searching him.
Questioning him about the source of the cash, they took the cash from him and told him to collect it at the Flower bazaar police station, after producing the relevant documents. Only on reaching the flower bazaar police station, does Basheer realize that he was robbed. Based on his complaint, police launched a hunt for the robbers by perusing CCTV footage.
On Tuesday, Flower bazaar police arrested, M Khader Mohideen (42) and G Naresh (33) of Velachery, B Thiyagara Jan (40) of Adambakkam, D Fazool Mahmood (64), his son, Sharoof (27) and G Arokiya Prakash from Kanniyakumari district. Police recovered Rs 17 lakh cash from them. The arrested persons were produced before a magistrate and remanded in judicial custody.
