Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Indiranagar police have arrested a group of three friends who burgled a jewelery shop and made away with 1.3 kgs of gold valuables worth Rs.60 lakhs on last thursday to recover from the business loss they had incurred during covid period.
The police arrested the accused identified as, Mahendra,owner of an eatery,his friends Neelakantha selling construction material and samson, salesman at a watch showroom.
Senior officer told reporters,as there was a case registered by the jewellery shop owner of CMH road in which he stated that his shop has been burgled by some miscreants after breaking open the shutters.
A special teams were formed to nab the culprits by DCP East, Dr SD Sharanappa a team headed by PI,Indiranagar Hareesh BC and team swung into action.
Two special team were formed to nab the miscreants one team who were on Patrolling noticed three men moving suspiciously near a pawn store to sell the stolen booty were caught by alert PSI and staff.
The team took them to custody and during investigation they found huge gold ornaments in their possession the inspector asked them to produce documents to prove the gold belonged to them they failed to produce any documents.
The team grilled them and during interrogation the accused confessed to the crime and spilled the beans.
Mahendra and Neelakantha had incurred huge loss in business during covid period and borrowed heavy loans.
Unable to repay the trio planned to burgle and watched the trick of the trade on youtube and social media to learn stealing and how to break in they purchased tools and practiced on how to break locks and shutters .
The accused also recceed many jewel shops before zeroing in on Meena Jewellery shop on CHM road due to less security measures .
AS per the borrowed car from one of their relative they changed the number plate before reaching the spot in the middle of the night.
They accused succeeded in breaking into the shop and stole valuables.They also used hand gloves to avoid finger prints and evidence.However their entire act was recorded on CCTV camera installed near the shop .
After stealing the valuables,the accused went to goa and spend sometime before returning to the city to dispose the valuables.
The police recovered the entire 1360 grams of gold valuables intact from them and taken the accused into custody for further investigation.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP East,Dr SD Sharanappa,ACP, Kumar D,PI, Hareesh BC,PSIs,as,Amaresh,Sharath,Praveen C,Sharafuddin,Honesh,Probationary PSI,and crime staff as,Srinivas,Nayeem Ulla Hussain, Shashidhar, Chandrakanth, Manjunath,Nagaraj,Noor Pasha, Krishnamurthy,Yamanappa K,and Sharanappa has been appreciated for the commendable and exemplary work done by them in nabbing the three member gang and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.
