chennai poonamallee police have arrested a man and a woman who posed as a couple and stole cologne bottles worth 10000 at a supermarket the accused were identified as n murugan 45 from madurai and l lakshmi 38 of theni lakshmi was a repeat offender police said on sunday they entered a supermarket on trunk road and pretended that they had to buy grocery they picked up several bottles of branded cologne and hid them in their clothes a cashier who was monitoring cctv cameras raised the alarm he called in other staff of the supermarket and apprehended them they were then handed over to police a probe revealed that both became friends recently since lakshmi had theft cases pending against her in madurai police said they suspected that she used murugan to carry out the shoplifting job both murugan and lakshmi told police they were not aware of presence of cctv cameras and thought the cologne bottles would fetch them a good bargain in the market both have been remanded in judicial custody