He has previously been accused of theft. He has been remanded to judicial custody. In case they woke up and made a noise, he would attack them and flee into the darkness outside. Soon after this, District Police Chief (Thiruvananthapuram rural) P Asok Kumar formed a probe team.Thiruvananthapuram: In a major breakthrough, the Thiruvananthapuram Police have arrested a man from Tamil Nadu who had come to be known as the "naked thief".Panicked residents even formed vigilante groups to take him down."Cutting tools were used to take gold chains from sleeping women. The "naked-thief" armed himself with a wire cutter and break into homes through the rear doors - often stealing cash and jewellery laying around the house, say police.The accused was eventually identified by CCTV footage taken from a home he broke into in Keralas Nedumangad."

The bikes keep changing as he steals one vehicle for the night, leaves it there and steals another one to escape getting caught," The News Minute quoted a senior police officer as saying.According to reports the man is believed to have broken into more than 25 homes in Neyyattinkara, Parassala and neighbouring areas on a motorbike which he had pure acrylic emulsion manufacturers stolen before.Reports said that the thief had recently enrolled himself at a law college. In many instances, innocent people that drew suspicions of locals were beaten up, say police.IFrameIFrame. His exploits gave sleepless nights to people residing in villages located close to the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border," a police officer told The New Indian Express.