The Habibganj police on Thursday nabbed four miscreants involved in burgling cash and ornaments from temples in different areas of the city. Valuables worth Rs 1 lakh have been recovered from their possession.
According to the police, three persons were nabbed during night patrolling at 12 no stop area on Thursday while they were trying to sell stolen goods. When the three were asked by the police patrolling team the three were not able to provide satisfactory answers and later during interrogation they accepted to have committed six burglaries.
The three were identified as Dinesh Gond (25), Mangal Joshi (25), Golu alias Ram lochan (23) residents of PC Nagar in Habibganj. The accused persons have confessed that Vikram Singh (38) helped in disposing the burgled goods. He used to buy silver coins from the accused.
SHO of Habibganj police Sudhir Arjariya said that the three used to burgle and would sell the goods and jewelry to Vikram Singh and few months ago he told them that they should target temples as it is easy to get cash and ornaments from temples after which the gang started to target temples.
Apart from temples the accused have also confessed three burglaries in shop and house in which they burgled money. The accused targeted one temple under Habibganj police station, one under Shahpura police station area and one under Bagh Sewania police station area, he added.
The three used to target cash in the burglaries. The donation boxes kept in the temples were the main targets of the accused which were easily accessible once entering the temple and were easy broken. It is possible that thy three would confess more burglaries in the further investigation said the police.