Summary:
The truck was fitted with GPS and the owner stopped the engine of the truck with the help of GPS. The gang abandoned the truck and escaped.The Negamam police traced the gang and arrested them.The truck owner told TOI that he had bought the new truck worth Rs 18 lakh about seven months ago. But the gang members were not aware about GPS in the truck,” he said.“I alerted Coimbatore rural police and shared the GPS information to them. The gang unloaded the coconut in a godown near Pongalur, dropped the driver near Kangeyam and escaped with the truck.The truck driver, S Manohar, informed the vehicle owner, V Prakash of Porur in Chennai, about the incident. He was coming back to Chennai from Anaimalai with 10.5 tonne of coconut when the gang intercepted him..