Pramesh S Jain
The Kodigehalli police have arrested a 35-year-old mechanical engineer turned notorious house break thief having as many as 91 cases pending against him.
The accused Srinivas resident of Kempalli village in Andhra Pradesh worked as technical crew in Andhra Cinema industry and arrested for stealing a laptop to arrange money for his online gaming addiction.
After he came out on bail,he became full time burglar used to move around the places to identify locked houses and steal valuables after breaking into the houses .
The accused had burgled two houses on a single day and returned to his home town to dispose the stolen valuables.
Based on a CCTV footage the Kodigehalli police with the help of technical expertise,enlarged the image to match it with Srinivas records available in crime database .
With his arrest the police solved two house break thefts in Kodigehalli and recovered rupees nine lakh worth valuables from him.
The accused had decent background and his siblings are engineers working in US and Australia as techies , the police,said .
However addiction to game and lavish life made him to take the wrong way,a senior officer, said .
