Tamil Nadu: 2 brothers steal goats to fund father's movie, gets arrested

Chennai: They were trying to help their father but landed in jail. This is the story about 2 brothers from Tamil Nadu who wanted to help their father. The siblings stole goats hoping they would be able to fund their father's movie. But instead they landed up getting arrested.

Nirajan Kumar and Lenin Kumar got arrested on Sunday for stealing goats.

Their plan was they would sell the stolen goats and give the money to their father for his movie where they are playing the lead role.

They used to drive around the rural deserted stretches of Chengalpet, Madhavaram, Minjur and Ponnery and stole eight to ten goats, sold them for Rs. 8000.

No one bothered to complain about the loss of one or two goats. But on Nov 9 a complaint was lodged by Palani of Madhvaram who have a dozen of goats from which a goat got stolen.

The police checked the CCTV footage and caught their car but the registration number was not visible so the police deployed some police personnel in that locality and eventually caught the two brothers on Saturday.

Police said their father, Vijay Shankar was producing a film named 'Nee Thaan Raja' where both the brothers were playing the lead role. Due to lack of funds, shooting was stopped midway and that's when the sons decided to help.

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