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Youth held with jewellery worth Rs. 7-lakh

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: A B.Tech dropout was arrested by the police here on Thursday on the charges of housebreaking and chain snatching and 500 grams of gold jewellery and 300 grams of silver articles were recovered, all valued at about Rs. 7 lakh, from his possession.

Acting on specific information, a police team led by Two Town CI B. Vijaykumar and SI Prasad Reddy nabbed the 24-year-old youth Adeppa Naik of Palyam thanda in Pamidi mandal in the district, on Bellary road on the outskirts of the town, when he was coming to the town to dispose of the booty.

Chain-snatching

The youth amassed the valuables allegedly by committing the housebreakings and chain snatches in different areas of the district headquarters town and in Pamidi from December 2006 to March 2008.

Giving the details to newspersons here, Anantapur DSP G.S. Karunakar stated that by taking to criminal activity the engineering dropout had also dashed the hopes of his family and friends.

Adeppa Naik had pursued B.Tech course at Sullurupet in Nellore district from 2003 to 2006 and had to discontinue the course as he had failed in several subjects and was not promoted to study the last year of the course. During his study he fell in bad company.

Unable to meet the expenses for his vices after his return to home and due to his family’s poor economic status he took to the criminal activities.

Against the normal practice of committing such crime in groups, Adeppa Naik allegedly committed all the crimes alone. He would identify a locked house first and would break entry into it when there would be no movement of people in the vicinity.

Then he would break open the almirahs in the targeted houses and would decamp with the valuables.

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