COIMBATORE: A year after 2.5kg gold was stolen from two employees of a jewellery manufacturing unit at Karuppangounder Street here, the Coimbatore city police have secured two men from the city and three from Uttar Pradesh M Jeevanandhan and V Sekar lost gold while travelling to the city from Bengaluru in a bus on October 12, 2017. They found their luggage broke open when they reached the Mettupalayam Bus Stand.The city police launched an investigation into the case after the unit owner, L Thiyagarajan, filed a complaint.“As the statements from the employees had contradictions and no solid clues were found, we could not crack it. Recently, we nabbed Jayaprakash and Hasan, natives of Uttar Pradesh, in a jewellery theft case. They were habitual offenders. During interrogation, the duo confessed of their involvement in several bag lifting and theft cases. They also revealed the identity of their partners in the city.”“Based on their confession, we reached Uttar Pradesh to nab Ringu, Footkhan and Gavindhar. But they were already lodged in a prison in connection with a similar theft in Gajraula police station of Amroha district,” a police officer told TOI.After filing a transit warrant before a magistrate court, the city police took them under custody for 12 days and brought them to Coimbatore.“Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had sold the jewellery in several places. As they are habitual offenders, they could not remember where they sold it,” the officer added.Police suspect the role of three more people in the incident.

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