How a movie junior artiste, who struck at schools and hostels in Madras, was arrested in 1964
The HinduBetween September 4, 1962 and November 6, 1963, a series of daytime burglaries occurred in various schools, hostels, lodges, and houses in Madras city. Forensic experts of the Single Digit Finger-Print Bureau lifted latent palm prints from the scenes of the early break-ins, hoping to match them with available fingerprints. With no fingerprint matching at the Single Digit Finger-Print Bureau of Madras, copies of the fingerprints were sent to the Finger Print Bureau at Vellore and the Single Digit Sections in the State as well as to the Finger Print Bureaux in India, looking for a match in their records. That was when S. Palaniappan, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crimes, Madras, decided to depute Malick Sherifuddin, an expert of the Single Digit Bureau, to check for a fingerprint match. I immediately directed a Detective Sub-Inspector to go to Bangalore and meet the Expert and arrest the culprit, if available,” recalled Palaniappan in an article, ‘Importance and need of search for latent fingerprints and palm prints of the culprits at the scenes of crime’, published in the April-June 1964 edition of The Madras Police Journal.
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