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Three arrested; wires, ingots recovered

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JULY 8. The Yeshwanthpur Police on Thursday claimed to have solved 75 cases of electric cable theft with the arrest of three persons from Tamil Nadu. The police have recovered 32.5 tonnes of aluminium ingots, worth Rs. 67 lakhs, and also aluminium wires. The wires were dissolved to make these ingots, the police said.

The police said the arrested persons, N. Murthy (28), Dorairaj (30) and Shankar (25) of Hosur in Dharmapuri district, were the associates of 14 persons who were earlier arrested by the Kolar and Bangalore Rural district police in similar cases.

In the last three years, the gang had stolen aluminium cables of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL) from Hebbugodi, Bannerghatta, Thalghatapura, Attibele, Sarjapur, Varthur, Hoskote and Nandagudi police station limits in Bangalore Rural district and Malur and Kolar Rural police station limits in Kolar district, the police said.

In June, the Bangalore Rural district police arrested seven persons and recovered from them aluminium ingots worth Rs. 25 lakhs.

The police said the gang members moved around on motorcycles during the day to identify the places where KPTCL had laid high-tension aluminium cables. During the night, they disconnected the power supply and cut the cables. Later, they would call the receiver over a mobile phone and he would send vehicles to carry the wires, the police said.

According to the police, Muniyappa, who owns a scrap metal shop in Hebbugodi, bought the cables from the gang members and dissolved them into ingots before selling them. Muniyappa was arrested in June, the police said.

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