Date:18/06/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/06/18/stories/2007061854620400.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Siddha doctor’s house burgled

Staff Reporter

TAMBARAM: Gold jewellery weighing 33 sovereigns and Rs. 15,000 in cash were stolen from the house of a government doctor in Shankar Nagar near Pallavaram on Sunday.

Ravichandran, attached to the Siddha unit of the Tiruvallur Government Hospital, had gone to his native place in Vellore district. His wife went to her mother’s house in Pammal on Sunday morning and on her return in the evening, noticed the front door broken open and valuables stolen. Police are investigating.