The Kerala Police on Wednesday arrested two young men, both of whom are history sheeters, for robbing actor-turned-politician and Union Minister of State Suresh Gopi’s ancestral home located within the Eravipuram police station limits.
An official from the Kerala Police said on Wednesday that the arrested people, identified as Shiminas and Arun, who are in the 18-20 age group, have previous cases of robberies registered against them.
The two criminals fell into the Kerala Police net after a relative of Minister of State Suresh Gopi arrived at the house to check on it and found the outhouse doors left wide open. Upon checking, the relative found that someone had stolen certain old materials kept in the outhouse of the minister’s home.
The minister’s relative alerted the police, who rushed to the crime scene. After a thorough probe of the area, the cops were able to zero in on the two miscreants after they were spotted in the CCTV footage of the neighbouring house. The minister’s ancestral home is locked, and Suresh Gopi’s relatives visit it at times to ensure its safety.
During the interrogation of the two young men, police found out that they had also decamped with old materials kept at the outhouse as they realised that no one lived there and found it an easy target.
However, it is not clear yet if they realised that they were robbing the house of the Minister of State, Suresh Gopi. Their arrests have been formally recorded, a police officer said, adding that the two criminals will be produced before a local magistrate soon. Suresh Gopi and his family reside in the state capital city of Thiruvananthapuram and rarely come down to the house.
–IANS
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