Cops identify gang involved in highway robbery

COIMBATORE: The rural police have identified the four-member gang that stole a car containing Rs 10 lakh from Marappalam in Madukkarai here last week.
Police collected 200 CCTV footage from Coimbatore till Thrissur in Kerala to find the Alappuzha-based gang, police superintendent Ara Arularasu said.
G Mohammed Mustafa, 34, a cab driver from Mannarkkad in Palakkad district, lodged a complaint with the Madukkarai police on Tuesday.He had come to Oppanakkara Street in Coimbatore along with his friend Sharjah Hussain to receive Rs 10 lakh from Kumar on January 11. The duo was returning to Mannarkkad with the money in a call taxi. When they reached Marappalam around 9pm, a four-member gang waylaid the car and broke open the glass. They forced the duo out and drove away the vehicle, which was later abandoned in Kanyakumari.
The gang used to waylay vehicles to steal hawala money, said Arularasu. “The gang members came to Coimbatore in a multi-purpose vehicle. Two special teams are following the miscreants and will nab them soon,” he said.TNN