Notorious HBT offender arrested,Recovered intact stolen gold ornaments Worth Rs.8.5 lakhs

Yogesh K Porwar

The North Division police of Nandini layout police arrested a 21 year old youth for house break theft.The police recovered intact 194 gram of gold valuables worth Rs.8.5 lakhs from his possession.

The accused has been identified as,Dilip alias Kutty,21,resident of Laggere a welder by profession.

Senior officer told media persons,On May 24,the shop owner,Bharathi KP, registered a complaint in Nandini layout police station stating that when she went out of station the next day morning she received a call from her neighbour that someone has entered the house by breaking the door lock.

As soon she heard the news she returned back to Bengaluru and found that someone has break opened her door and made away with 194 grams of gold ornaments from her house.

Based on complaint the crime team swung into action the PSI,of Nandini layout,Naveed along with crime staff visited the house and inspected the area and after inspecting the area the team collected information from the complainant as does she has any doubt against anyone.

The complainant told that before leaving to Kanakapura she has informed about this to her regular customer who is regular customer of her shop who buys cigarettes so she said him to stock up the cigarette for 2 days.

The team Inspected the area and pressed into action and visited the neighborhood areas and after checking the CCTV cameras installed in the area the team got a vital clue as suspect persons footage.

The team showed the CCTV footage to the complainant after seeing the footage she recognised the person and said that he is her regular customer.

Based on the identification the team who were on patrolling on 28th May near Laggere area noticed a person moving suspiciously in the area and when our team checked that he is the same person to whom they are searching the team secured the suspect and took him to station for questioning.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and the accused has been identified as, Dilip Kutty,21,a welder by profession and resident of  Laggere used to buy cigarettes from a grocery shop close to his house regularly,

And when he got to know that the owner of the house is not in station Dilip hatched a plan and robbed the house the same night and made away with the valuables .

During the interrogation he revealed that he had kept stolen valuables at his house since he could not dispose due to lockdown the team has recovered stolen 194 grams of gold ornaments worth of Rs.8.5 lakhs intact from his house where he has hided the gold after commiting crime and the equipment used in commiting crime has been recovered from him.

A case has been registered in Nandini layout police station and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena, ACP,Malleswaram sub-division,KS Venkatesh Naidu,PI,Venkategowda,PSI,Naveed,and his crime staff as, Umesh,Manjunath,Lokesh,Umesh, Abhishek,Basavanna and others has successfully nabbed the HBT offender and recovered gold ornaments intact and for the commendable job done by them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.