Summary:
Police said he told them he had abandoned his bike near Pattaravakkam and fled after spotting a police patrol.While fleeing, he scaled a wall and fell, fracturing his right hand. A senior police officer said, “We examined the bike and found at least 25 sovereigns of gold jewellery hidden in it. We maintained surveillance at the place suspecting Arivalagan would come there to collect his bike.”At 1.15pm on Saturday, Arivalagan sporting a bandage on his right hand arrived at the spot and was nabbed by the police. Passers-by, thinking he had been in an accident, took him to the Government Stanley Hospital. There he claimed he broke his hand in a fall in his bathroom and left after treatment to retrieve the stolen booty he had hidden in the bike.The Ambattur Industrial Estate police registered a case and arrested Arivalagan..