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Time of India
10-05-2025
- Time of India
Guest Worker Arrested for Stealing Rs 75 Lakh Gold Bars in Coimbatore
COIMBATORE: RS Puram Investigation Wing police in Coimbatore city arrested a guest worker who was working in gold smithery for stealing 750 grams of gold bars worth Rs 75 lakhs. The arrested person was identified as D , 23, from Pali district in Rajasthan State. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He was staying on Subramaniam Road in the Gandhipuram area of Coimbatore city. Police said B , 40, from Telungupalayam in Coimbatore city, was running a gold smithery named 'Sri Sha Jewels' on Subramaniam Road at Gandhi Park in Coimbatore city. He used to receive gold ingots from jewellery shops, and his goldsmith teams would make them into gold ornaments. He would supply the gold ornaments to the respective jewellery shops and receive payment. Sylendra Singh joined the gold smithery six months ago and earned the trust of Selvendran, who trusted the guest worker blindly and gave him the keys to the gold smithery. On Wednesday evening, Selvendran received a 750-gram gold bar from one of his customers. He kept the gold bar worth Rs 75 lakhs in a box and handed the key over to Sylendra Singh. However, Sylendra Singh stole the gold ingots from the box. The next morning, the smithery owner Selvendran questioned him about the gold ingot, and Sylendra Singh replied that he was not aware of the gold bar as he left all the keys at the shop and someone might have taken the gold bar. However, Selvendran lodged a complaint with RS Puram Investigation Wing police, who picked up Sylendra Singh for an inquiry. He confessed to the crime, and the police arrested Sylendra Singh on Friday evening. The police also seized the Rs 75 lakh worth gold bar from him. Further investigation is ongoing.
Time Out
02-05-2025
- Business
- Time Out
The original Morley's sign is going on display at a London museum
What's the most London-y thing you can think of? No, it's not red double-deckers, or Big Ben. And it's not Perello olives or Lime bikes either. We're thinking of fried chicken, specifically, Morley's. Now, Morley's is going to be officially inducted into the London hall of fame, as the sign from the original chicken shop will go in display at the new London Museum (FKA the Museum of London) when it reopens at its new site in 2026. As Morley's turns 40, the London Museum has acquired the sign from the first Morley's that opened in Sydenham in the '80s. It will become part of the new museum's Hanging Out display, celebrating the places London's communities come together. Founded in 1985 by Sri Lankan-born Kannalingam 'Indran' Selvendran – who moved to London from his native Colombo in the 1970s – Morley's has grown from a single south London shop into a full chain, now with outposts all over the city and elsewhere, including Brighton and Milton Keynes. It has remained a family business, with Selvendran's son Shan taking over as managing director in 2009. Shan Selvendran, chief executive of Morley's said: 'Ever since our beginnings as a small family-run shop, it was always my father's dream to make Morley's a household name. Through his passion for community and flavour, he built a loyal presence in south London - laying the foundation for where we are today. 'Although his unexpected passing meant he wasn't here to see just how far we've grown, Dad's vision lives on – and it means the world to see our story being recognised by London Museum. Morley's means so much to so many people – as part of their own lives and heritage, so this moment is also for everyone who has been a part of that journey.'
BBC News
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Morley's chicken shop sign to be displayed in London Museum
The sign from the original Morley's chicken shop is to go on display in the London Museum's new sign will be part of the museum's new Hanging Out display, which celebrates the social spaces where London's communities come in 1985 by Sri Lankan-born Kannalingam "Indran" Selvendran, who moved to the UK in the 1970s, Morley's began as a single shop in Sydenham, south-east London, and has become a common sight across many of the capital's high Selvendran, Indran's son and Morley's chief executive, said having the firm included as part of London's history was the "most amazing thing that's happened to this business... and to a community that built us". Asked what his late father would make of the museum display, Mr Selvendran said: "I think he'd be stunned. You live for this kind of moment where everything you've worked for and effectively what he gave his life for is being celebrated in such a prestigious heritage driven place. "For us as a family, but also just as a community, it is quite honestly unreal." The sign was officially handed over to the London Museum by members of the Morley's team, alongside south London musicians and entrepreneurs Krept and Konan.A Morley's store served as a backdrop for both Stormzy's 2017 song Big For Your Boots, and Krept's 2019 track Morley's at the handover was Kannalingam Mahendran, Indran Selvendran's brother, who ran the firm's first Sydenham told BBC London he was "very proud" of the firm's history and how it had expanded across the capital and beyond. Mr Mahendran added that "everyone knows Morley's" and said he had become known by many people in the Sydenham area through working at the chicken shop over four decades. The sign will be on on display from 2026 as part of Our Time, a social space at the heart of the London Museum's new Smithfield site. Dhikshana Turakhia Pering, head of creative programmes at London Museum, called Morley's an "icon of London's high streets" and "part of the DNA and culture of London".She said acquiring the original sign had been high on the museum's wish list since the early inception of the Hanging Out display."[Morley's] evokes memories of after school hangouts and late-night stories for generations of Londoners," she added.
