CHENNAI: While the rest of the city was sleeping, the neighbours of the alleged bank robbers, who were killed in police encounter early on Thursday morning, recalled sounds of gunshots and heavy banging against a gate. They were too scared to peek out as the police had instructed them to stay indoors. The residents of the thickly populated locality also recalled the five were never friendly with them and often stayed away.Yasodha, a resident of the TNHB Third Lane, claimed that she saw a posse of police assembling around 10.30 pm. When she asked the police for their sudden presence, the men in khaki only responded by asking them to stay indoors. “We knew there was some problem. They asked us not to come out of the house. After sometime, I heard gunshots. Later, the cops asked me for water when I saw a police officer with injury,” she said. “They would stay at home for two days, then go away for 10 days and come back. Only now, they had been here staying at home for a week. Ramachandran, who lived in the opposite house said, “I have been living here for five years, Last night, my son came back from work at 11.30 pm and I could see police everywhere in the lane. Only in the morning did I know what had happened.”Bala, another resident of the lane, claimed that he followed the instructions given by the police around 11 pm and locked himself up inside his house. He too recalled that he could hear gunshots.Another resident, Lakshmi, who was sitting outside her house, said that she too went into her house and shut the door when police warned her that something was going to happen. Udayasuriyan, another neighbour, said that he thought that someone had committed suicide and the police was there to investigate. But Mahesh, who lived on AL Mudali Second Street, said he was woken up by the sound of loud banging against a gate as he slept in his bedroom that was located in the direction of TNHB Third lane, where the encounter took place.
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