COIMBATORE: The city police on Saturday detained three men, who supposedly uttered 1,500 liquor bottles worth Rs 1.
50 lakh in the Tasmac store in Peelamedu.
Tasmac store 1570, close to the Coimbatore International Airport, has been shut on May 9 because of the lockdown, manager C Sugumaran informed authorities.
He visited the store on Friday afternoon and discovered a gap on the wall along with the bottles lost.
Police identified the detained people as A Vinoth Kumar, 21, of Singanallur, R Manojkumar, both 21 and P Jayaprakash, 22, of Kallimadai from town.
They recuperated 12 liquor bottles, Rs 31,000 and 2 bikes from them.
A special team was made to nab four people in relation to the situation, police sources said.
The Annur police detained a man for stealing spirits from a Tasmac store 1542 in Kakapalayam.
The store’s steel shutter was discovered broke open on Thursday morning.
Police recovered CCTV footage in the store and detained C Sakthivel, 36, of Sengathurai close Sulur and regained 56 liquor bottles value $13,540 out of him.
A special team was made to nab three additional individuals involved with the theft.
A 46-year-old Tasmac store salesman was detained on Saturday for stocking 359 bottles of spirits for earnings at Nanjegoundenpudur around the outskirts of town.
According to a police source, Vadakkipalayam authorities sub-inspector Rajendra Prasad, particular sub-inspector of authorities Venkatachalam and mind constable Prabhu acquired a hint that V Kalimuthua resident of Nanjegoundenpudur close Achipatti at Pollachi, had been involved in illicit sale of spirits while there were around rounds on Saturday morning.
“The group hurried to the place and discovered 359 bottles of spirits which were concealed beneath thorny bushes.
They captured the bottlesthe worth of which can be offered at Rs 45,000,” the source stated.