TIRUCHY: With the arrest of three more persons, including a couple, the Tiruchy police had caught the 12-member North Indian gang in connection with the highway gold robbery and recovered 97 per cent gold from the accused, said the SP S Selvanagarathinam here on Friday.

Displaying the recovered jewellery, cash, seized weapons and a car along with the gang to the reporters in Tiruchy, the SP said, on September 13, the Chennai based jewellery shop manager and a staff were returning to Chennai with 10 kg of jewellery after distributing jewellery in Dindigul and Pradeep Khan, a resident from Rajasthan was the driving the car owned by the jewellery making unit.

When they stopped the car at Samayapuram in Tiruchy-Chennai bypass to attend nature’s call, a gang appeared there in another car and

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