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Jobless man steals mobile phones | Coimbatore News


Coimbatore: A 32-year-old Keralite, who took to stealing mobile phones from patients and their attenders at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) allegedly after he lost his job with a city bakery following the lockdown, was arrested on Thursday. Police have recovered seven mobile phones from him.
The Race Course police identified the accused as N Ramesh, of Mundur in Palakkad district in Kerala. An investigation officer said Ramesh used to befriend patients and their attenders at the CMCH and request for their mobile phones to speak to his family members.
“Believing his words, they handed him over their phones, with which he often vanished,” the officer said.
On Thursday, some of his victims spotted Ramesh on CMCH premises and caught him. They later handed him over to Race Course police inspector Sujatha.“During inquiry, he told us that he was working with a city bakery and became jobless after the lockdown. He has been staying inside the CMCH campus for a while and having free food from Amma Unavagam. He was planning to sell the mobile phones in Palakkad. But he couldn’t leave for his hometown because of lack of transport facility,” the officer said.
The Race Course police have booked him under Section 380 of the Indian Penal Code and he is likely to be remanded in judicial custody.



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