TIRUCHY: A special team of Coimbatore police on Friday arrested a history-sheeter wanted in a case related to a series of house-breaking incidents by opening fire after he attacked police with a machete.

Rajasekar (32), a resident of Vadamadurai in Dindigul district and a notorious history-sheeter against whom more than 80 cases are pending across the State, with most of the cases registered in Coimbatore, Madurai, Dindigul and Tiruchy. He is said to have been involved in waylaying, dacoity and threatening cases, and he is wanted by the police from various districts in connection with the respective cases.

Recently, he was involved in a series of house-breaking and burglary incidents in Coimbatore, and the Coimbatore City police had spread a dragnet against Rajasekar and were searching

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