HYDERABAD: Only cricketers do not create records and style is not the sole property of film stars. Even offenders can create records and perform their job in style.

That is what the Cyberabad police understood on Thursday after arresting Mohd. Afsar, who broke into 255 houses in 15 years and Parthi Vinod, an expert in breaking locks without making noise.

The long list of thefts and burglaries apart, Afsar has several peculiarities to his credit. "If he does recce in night, he would burgle during the day and vice-versa," Cyberabad DCP Sowmya Mishra told a press conference here. He used to live in distant places like Karimnagar and Nizamabad, come to the city by train or bus, select a posh house to break into, sell the booty in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and go back to his house.

The logic was he did not want his former accomplices and other criminals to spot him and alert the police. He had even worked as a police informant for some time. Sixteen stolen motorcycles, two autorickshaws and half-a-kilogram of gold, all worth Rs. 14 lakhs, were recovered from Afsar.

`Silent' worker

Meanwhile, the speciality of Vinod, a fruit vendor, was the silent he way he would break even huge locks. "He ties cloth material around the lock to ensure that there is no sound," police said.

He carries `S' and `L' shaped iron rods and hacksaw blades to open doors and locks.

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