Coimbatore: Kalveerampalayam residents caught a notorious burglar red-handed on Tuesday.The arrested person was identified as N Baskar, 61, of Kalaignar Colony at Perumalpatti in Madurai district.
He tried to steal a mobile phone from the house of Srihari of Mappillai Gounder Layout at Kalveerampalayam on Tuesday evening.
Srihari raised an alarm and his neighbours caught Baskar.
The Vadavalli police booked Baskar under Section 380 (theft in dwelling house etc) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested him.
Police seized the stolen mobile phone from him.
He was remanded in judicial custody and was lodged in the Udumalpet sub-jail on Wednesday.Baskar committed first crime at age 22, a police officer said.
“He was involved in 11 theft cases in Trichy city and is facing theft cases in Coimbatore, Dindigul, Madurai and Chennai.
He had decamped with Rs 1.74 lakh from a house in Vadavalli police station limit last year.
He also stole Rs 30,000 from another house.
He used to sleep in bus stands and target locked houses,” he said.