Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The RR Nagar police on Thursday arrested a gang of three involved in house break thefts and recovered valuables worth Rs.28 lakh from them.
The accused have been identified as Vinod raj, Saleem Rafiq and Bilal Mondal .
Senior officer told media persons,that all the the trio are habitual offenders and met at Parappana Agarahara while serving sentence for a previous cases and teamed up .
After coming out of prison on bail,four months ago,the accused resorted to their profession and vinod raj was assigned to recce and identifiy locked house,while Saleem and Bilal went to Mumbai.
As per the plan Vinod raj worked to provide logistic help and went around the areas to target locked houses and alerted Saleem and Bilal.
The duo had flew down from Mumbai to Bengaluru and stayed with Vinod Raj for few days before breaking into a house in RR Nagar and looted valuables on March 26,when the family had gone to the temple .
Based on a complaint the police analyzed the CCTV footage from in and around the area and identified Vinod Raj and arrested him.
Based on his confession the police arrested Saleem and Bilal and recovered the gold and silver valuables worth Rs 28 lakh from them.
The police have also seized a car and a motorcycle from Vinod Raj who was using them to recce the area.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Kodandarama,PI Shivanna M and his whole team for the commendable job done by them in nabbing the trio a special reward will be given to whole team he added
