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Eight-member gang’s arrest leads to huge haul

Staff Reporter

— Photo: K. Gopinathan

Good catch: Police Commissioner N. Achuta Rao and other officials going through the recovered items displayed at the Frazer Town police station in Bangalore on Monday.

BANGALORE: The Fraser Town police arrested an eight-member gang, which had allegedly burgled several factories and choultries in Bangalore Rural and Kolar districts, and recovered 49 hi-tech sewing machines, 25 pump set motors and brass and aluminium vessels, all worth Rs. 38 lakh.

Commissioner of Police Neelam Achuta Rao told presspersons on Monday that while checking vehicles on Pottery Road on July 17, the Fraser Town police arrested four persons who were transporting four stolen sewing machines in a multi-utility vehicle.

During investigation, it emerged that since 2005, the arrested men and their four other accomplices had stolen 49 sewing machines from garment factories on the outskirts of the city, pump set motors from a factory in Kolar Industrial area and brass and big aluminium cooking vessels from three choultries in Channapatna in Bangalore Rural district and Chintamani and Sreenivasapura in Kolar district, the police said.

The arrested were identified as Babu Jan (25), Rabbi (23), Javed (20) and Mubarak (18) of Sreenivasapura, Sadiq (18) of Chintamani, Mohammed Rafiq (30) of Kolar and Firoze (33) and Shahjan Khan (36) of Kadugondanahalli in Bangalore.

Youth arrested

The Ramamurthynagar police arrested two youths on charges of burglary and recovered from them mobile phones, television sets, cameras and other electronic gadgets, together worth Rs. 7.5 lakh. The police gave their names as Mohammed Ghouse (22) of Whitefield and Mohammed Asif (22) of Hoskote.

The duo and their absconding accomplice had entered the shops in Sarjapur, Whitefield and Hoskote by breaking the rolling shutters using gas cutters and made away with the goods in a van and an autorickshaw.

They used to dispose the stolen goods through Syed Dastgir of Shankinipura in Hoskote, the police said.

Laptops recovered

The Cubbon Park police have arrested an autorickshaw driver on charges of theft and recovered from him five brand new laptops, which were loaded with software, together worth Rs. 6 lakh.

The police said that on July 16, the staff of Soft Cell Private Limited on Infantry Road hired Syed Habeeb’s autorickshaw to transport five laptops to their client’s firm in Basavanagudi. On reaching Siddalingaiah Circle, Habeeb (42) gave a slip to a company employee who was following the autorickshaw on his two-wheeler and made away with the laptops.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) B.N.S. Reddy said on Monday that though they had the registration number of the autorickshaw, they could not trace Habeeb as he had given a false address to the Regional Transport Office.

After enquiries at several autorickshaw stands, the police arrested Habeeb at an autorickshaw stand on J.C. Road and recovered the laptops from his house in Sarabandepalya in 2nd Stage, Banashankari, he said.

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