Parmesh S Jain
The East Division police of Banasawadi police on Saturday arrested a gang of three notorious inter state house breaking theft offenders and recovered 750 grams of gold valuables worth Rs.38 lakhs from them.
The accused identified as Haridas Barai,39 and Partha Haldar,32,of West Bengal and Ratan Saha, 52 from Delhi.
Senior officer told media persons,a house break theft was reported in Banaswadi police station limits in which the complainant said when they went out of station someone barged into their house and ransacked the house and made away with 750 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs.38 lakhs from their house.
After registering complaint a special team was led by DCP East,Dr Bheemashankar S Guled,under the supervision of ACP,Ningappa B Sakkiri,team headed by PI, Sathish HS and team swung into action.
The team visited the spot and after inspecting the area the team analysed CCTV footage in and around the area and based on technical inputs the team secured one person who was still in the city while his associates has taken flight with the booty.
After securing him the team grilled him and during investigation he confessed the crime and said that the two accused belongs to West Bengal and based on his statement a special team was rushed to West Bengal.
Based on his information, the police arrested the other accused from Delhi while the third accused identified as Ratan Saha,52, who was buying stolen properties from the accused was arrested .
During investigation it was revealed the used to come from West Bengal to city by flight and move around the residential areas to identify the locked houses.
Later the accused would identify the locked house by newspapers lying in front of the house and started to keep a watch for one or two days before gaining entry into the house.
Using a modus Operandi, the accused zeroed in on a house in Banasawadi and burgled a house after the family members had gone to Dubai on February 12.
A detailed investigations have revealed that the accused were involved in similar offences in Secunderabad and Delhi earlier and jailed.
DCP east division, Dr Bheemashankar S Guled, asked people to be careful while going out and inform the jurisdictional police including the milkman and the paper boys.
This will avoid undue attention of the anti social elements and also help the patrolling police to keep an eye on the locked houses,he said.
Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP East,Dr Bheemashankar S Guled,ACP,Ningappa B Sakkiri, PI,Sathish HS,PSIs,as,Nagaraj Nedalgi,Shahjahan Sannidhi and other crime staff who has successfully recovered the gold ornaments from the accused and for the excellent investigation by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.
