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TRICHY: The Idol wing CID police arrested a police constable 29-year-old police constable attached to Tamil Nadu special police battalion I, Trichy on Friday in connection with the theft of a five metal Vinayaka idol from the Siddhi Vinayagar temple in Poongudi moola village near Eravancheri in Tiruvarur district in 2016.

Idol wing CID deputy superintendent of police Ramesh and his team arrested Ponraj, a native of Thiruthuraipoondi in Tiruvarur district based on the confession given by another police constable Balamurugan, 35, who was working in the Peralam police station in Tiruvarur district.

Balamurugan was already in prison in connection with the idol theft. Ponraj was produced in the Kumbakonam court, which remanded him in judicial custody.

