CHENNAI: A 25-year-old economics graduate, who set himself the target of stealing laptops from medical colleges across the country as 'revenge' after his girlfriend, a medico, broke up with him, was nabbed in Chennai on Saturday.
A team of the Washermenpet police caught up with K Tamilselvan of Pulivalam in Thiruvarur district and seized 31 laptops worth ₹1 crore. Investigators believe he could have stolen more than 100 from colleges in places like Kannur in Kerala, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Jaipur since 2018. A court has sent him to jail.
