The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Ex-jailbird uses pigeons to break in Crime notes

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, Sep 20, 2007
ePaper

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Ex-jailbird uses pigeons to break in Crime notes

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Ulsoor Gate police have solved 15 cases of burglary and recovered one kg gold jewellery, eight kg silver articles, electronic gadgets and two motorcycles, all estimated Rs. 13 lakh, besides Rs. 4.15 lakh in cash.

Commissioner of Police Neelam Achuta Rao told presspersons on Wednesday that Manjunath alias Parivala Manja (25) of Vinayakanagar in Wilson Garden had burgled 13 houses in Ulsoor Gate and two in Chickpet police station limits.

The police arrested Manjunath’s two accomplices through whom he used to dispose of stolen property. The two were identified as Suresh alias Appu (25) of Vinayakanagar and Narayanaswamy (55) of Tiruvannamalai district in Tamil Nadu. After identifying a house for burglary, Manjunath used to fly pigeons near it and on the pretext of catching the birds, he used to get into the property, break open the locks and loot the houses, Mr. Achuta Rao said.

If the residents of the area questioned him, Manjunath used to tell them that he was looking for his pigeons. Manjunath had been burgling houses in this manner since he was 16, he said. In 2004, the city police had arrested Manjunath on charges of burgling 30 houses in Wilson Garden, Ulsoor Gate and Commercial Street police station limits. After he was released from jail in July 2006, he burgled 15 houses, the police said.

The arrest and recoveries were made by a team comprising Assistant Commissioner of Police (Ulsoor Gate) B.B. Ashok Kumar, Ulsoor Gate Inspector M.L. Purushottam and their staff.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Karnataka