Taliya police have busted a five member gang of burglars involved in around 18 burglaries in Bhopal and Indore and recovered valuables worth Rs 10 lakh.
While addressing the media persons Superintendent of Police (North) Arvind Saxena told that acting on a tip off that two persons are lurking suspiciously and are trying to sell goods a police team was rushed to the spot. When they were detained and questioned they were not able to provide satisfactory answers about the gold and silver ornaments possessed by them.
During investigation they confirmed that the valuables were burgled and provided information of other three accomplices and gold and silver ornaments were recovered from Bhopal and Indore, he added.
Saxena told that the main accused Ibrahim is a taxi driver and used to ply between Bhopal-Indore. He used to send the other accomplices to Bhopal through bus and trains to gather information regarding areas in which the houses were vacant and would then burgle the valuables in the night. After committing crime they used to escape to Indore. An interesting fact was revealed by the nabbed accused that they used to burgle only ornaments as they are easy to dispose while the electronic goods like mobile phone and laptop are hard to sell and their location would be traced.
The accused were identified as Bunty alias Ibrahim (27), Iqbal Hussain alias Bakar (40), Sunil Bamaniya (19), Prakash Sisodiya (30) and Kamal Kishore Barate (35). All the accused are residents of Indore while the main accused Ibrahim had also rented a house in Taliya area. Kingpin of the gang Ibrahim was involved in 18 crimes including burglary, extortion, assault and robbery.
Out of 18 crimes, he was involved in 12 burglaries. The gang has committed burglaries in Taliya, Kotwali, Koh-e-Fiza, Mangalwara, Shahjehanabad and Nishatpura police station area.