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Coimbatore: The Tirupur police have detained a 38-year-old history-sheeter under the Goondas Act on Saturday.
A police officer said S Babu, alias Veechu Babu alias Sheikh Mohamed, of Kangeyam Cross road, was arrested recently for attempting to murder Sahul Hameed, of Tirupur, on January 11 over previous enmity.
“He has five robbery cases and one theft case pending against him at Tirupur North police station, four robbery cases at Tirupur central police station, one robbery case at Veerapandi police station, and one attempt to murder and a robbery case at Tirupur South police station,” the officer said.
Based on his criminal record, police officials prepared a detailed report against Babu and requested Tirupur city police commissioner G Karthikeyan to detain him under the Goondas A copy of the order was served on him at the Coimbatore Central Prison.
COIMBATORE: The Ramanathapuram police on Tuesday night seized 3,800kg ration rice from a warehouse, which was to be smuggled to Kerala.
Police had raided the warehouse on Nethaji Nagar at Ramanathapuram after receiving a tip-off. “We found 76 sacks of ration rice and detained Sahul Hameed. Inquiry revealed that Hameed, along with Jafer, was planning to smuggle the rice to Kerala,” a police officer said.
The accused and the seized rice were handed over to the food cell police.
Ten days ago, flying squad of the civil supplies and consumer protection department, food cell police and forest department had arrested three people for attempting to smuggle 500kg ration rice from the district to Kerala near Anaikatti check post.