Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
The HSR Layout police have arrested a 28-year-old high school drop out from Andhra Pradesh involved in several house break thefts and giving police a sleepless nights.
The accused Arun Kumar Reddy was arrested based on a house-break theft case reported in the HSR Layout a team led by Inspector Ravi KB analyzed CCTV footage and identify the accused through old records .
The police recovered 178 grams of gold valuables, a laptop and two mobile phones worth Rs.8.5 lakh from him.
The accused hails from Kadiri town in Andhra Pradesh and had come to city few years ago to work .
He was planning to get his passport and visa to go to Dubai and sought the help of his sister’s friend working in city.
Reddy had committed petty thefts initially at his relatives houses to arrange money for the passport and visa and gave it to his sister’s friend.
But even after taking money the sister’s friend cheated him and left the city.Reddy started committing house break thefts after identifying the locked houses and keep a watch on them.
The accused would take the stolen valuables to his home town and pawn them and return with the money.
He would lead a lavish life and buy branded clothes and accessories and stay in star hotels and bet on IPL,a police officer,said .
With his arrest the police so far have cracked two house break thefts reported in HSR Layout and Begur police station limits.
The HSR layout police are further investigating to ascertain his possible involvement in other house break thefts .
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,CH Pratap Reddy,has appreciated Addl CP East,A subramanyeshwara Rao,DCP Southeast,CK Baba ACP,Lakshminarayan KC PI,Ravi KB,PSI,Shivappa,and crime staff as, Ramachandra,Vekataswamy, Jai Ganesh,Kattaiah,Nagesh,Ramachandra,Durgappa,Anand and Honnappa Pujari,has been appreciated for their tremendous work in nabbing notorious habitual offender who has given sleepless nights to police is finally landed in police net and cooling his heels in jail a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.
