Chennai: Burglary bid foiled by alert resident
Dinakaran alerted his father and the Poonamallee police.
Chennai: A burglar who broke into a house was locked by the resident and arrested by the police on Wednesday early morning.
Anandan and his son Dinakaran were realtors and resided in a house at Senneerkuppam near Poonamallee.
According to the police, on Wednesday at around 3.30am, Dinakaran heard an unusual sound from the neighbouring room and noticed a stranger trying to open the cupboard. Dinakaran stepped slowly and locked the door from outside, trapping the burglar inside the room.
Dinakaran alerted his father and the Poonamallee police. The police team nabbed the burglar identified as Ramachandran (31) a native of Coimbatore. Inquiries revealed that he had come to burgle the house along with another man who stayed on the road to alert him for any suspicious activity on the street. But since the man spotted the police personnel approaching the house, he escaped from the place.