Four member gang nabbed

Chennai, Apr 8 (UNI) Police today nabbed a four-member gang hailing from the southern Tirunelveli district, for cheating a real estate owner to the tune of Rs 20 lakh by posing as Income Tax officers.

Police said the gang members -- Ganesan, Prabakaran, Madasamy and Kandasamy -- had entered the house of real estate owner Vijayakumar in January and raided the house.

They had taken Rs 20 lakhs before leaving.

Acting on a complaint, police pursued various leads, traced their nativity to Tirunelveli, before zeroing on them.

They were later produced before a court which remanded them in judicial custody.

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