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They have gathered CCTV footage from the toll plaza and other commercial establishments in the area.Police suspect the hand of the moneylender’s accomplices behind the incident. Coimbatore: A 30-member gang waylaid a police team from Kerala and freed a 41-year-old moneylender from their custody near Kaniyur Toll Plaza on the Salem -Coimbatore National Highway on Saturday night.The four-member police team was taking P Maharajan of Virugambakkam in Chennai to Kerala in connection with a case filed by a businessman there, Coimbatore rural police sources said. They immediately escaped from the spot along with the moneylender,” the officer added.But instead of alerting Coimbatore police, the policemen informed senior officers about the incident over phone after reaching Kerala. They threatened the policemen — who were in uniform — and freed Maharajan from their custody. “He was arrested under Section III read with 17 of the Kerala Money Lenders Act and Section 3 and 4 Prohibition of Charging Exorbitant Interest Act..