Cop chases accused with gun on busy road
Published Date: 6/21/2007 - (NIE)
A Selvaraj
Chennai, June 20: The motorists on the busy MTH Road at Padi witnessed a scene similar to that of a Kollywood movie on Wednesday as they saw a police officer pulling out his gun and making an attempt to nab a fraudster, who jumped out of a car and escaped.
Acting on a tip-off that unidentified persons were defrauding people claiming that they had discovered treasure in the suburbs, a special team narrowed down on a gold coin treasure fraudsters at Teynampet.
In order to nab them, a senior police officer in ‘mufti’, posed as a customersand accompanied them in their car. When the car was nearing Padi, one of the culprits, who came to know about the decoy, jumped out of the car.
The officer chased the man with a gun, but he managed to escape.
However, the police detained a woman from Madhya Pradesh, an accomplice of the man who had escaped.
The police team attempted to trace the criminals after a person lost lakhs of rupees to a similar gang in Kodungaiyur, a few days ago.
Published Date: 6/21/2007 - (NIE)
A Selvaraj
Chennai, June 20: The motorists on the busy MTH Road at Padi witnessed a scene similar to that of a Kollywood movie on Wednesday as they saw a police officer pulling out his gun and making an attempt to nab a fraudster, who jumped out of a car and escaped.
Acting on a tip-off that unidentified persons were defrauding people claiming that they had discovered treasure in the suburbs, a special team narrowed down on a gold coin treasure fraudsters at Teynampet.
In order to nab them, a senior police officer in ‘mufti’, posed as a customersand accompanied them in their car. When the car was nearing Padi, one of the culprits, who came to know about the decoy, jumped out of the car.
The officer chased the man with a gun, but he managed to escape.
However, the police detained a woman from Madhya Pradesh, an accomplice of the man who had escaped.
The police team attempted to trace the criminals after a person lost lakhs of rupees to a similar gang in Kodungaiyur, a few days ago.
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