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Youth held for chain snatching posed as courier boy

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: Residents foiled an attempt to relieve a woman of her jewellery in her house in Koyambedu on Tuesday.

According to police, a youth, posing as a courier boy, knocked on the door to Manju Nair's flat in the 11th floor of Arihant Towers, saying there was a delivery for Mr.Suresh.

When the woman said there was no one in the house by that name, he left. However, he came back after a while and asked for drinking water. When Ms. Nair went inside the house, he tried to snatch the chain from her. She raised an alarm and her neighbours caught the youth and handed over him to Koyambedu police.

The youth was identified by police as Srinivasan of Chamaraj Nagar, Bangalore.

Live ammunition

A box containing three rounds of live ammunition was found abandoned near the railway track in Egmore on Tuesday night. Police said around 10 p.m. an RPF jawan spotted the box on the railway track near Gopalsamy Nagar Marshalling Yard in Chetpet. He informed the GRP, who summoned the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad.

A check of the box revealed that it contained three rounds of 9mm ammunition. Egmore railway police have registered a case. It is suspected that the box could have been stolen from an army or para military soldier. .

Found dead

Tambaram Staff Reporter writes:

K. Srinivasan, a retired sub-inspector of the Railway Protection Force was found dead in a suburban train in Tambaram on Tuesday night. Srinivasan, a resident of Vandalur, had gone to Park Town to meet his relatives and had taken the last train to Tambaram on his way back home.

When the train reached Tambaram, he was found lying in the train.

He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Police said the retired officer had died to a cardiac arrest.

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