The Crime Branch police on Saturday arrested two miscreants and recovered gold ornaments worth `2 lakh from their possession.
Notably, one of the miscreants, identified as Anoop, is a trained tattoo maker and hailed from Mumbai, while the other, Gopal, is a notorious criminal of Bhopal. Both of them became friends recently in jail, where they were serving jail term in connection with different crimes.
Anoop is facing 10 different criminal cases, while nine cases are registered against Gopal.
Additional SP of Crime Branch Shailendra Singh Chouhan told mediapersons that Gopal Naidu was engaged in driving taxi during night hours and probably during the same time, he used to recce the localities where the houses are lying vacant.
later, Gopal along with Anoop used to target the vacant houses. While taking the passenger in the taxi upto railway stations, Gopal used to befriend the passenger and got information regarding when he would be back and who else remains at the house.
First Gopal was arrested and put to interrogation. He accepted to have committed crimes with the help of his associate Anoop, who was in Bhopal jail. later, Anoop was taken on police remand through district court.
When the miscreants were brought before media, Anoop told claimed that he was innocent and he was engaged in tattoo making, in a shop at Kolar road.
At present Anoop was in the jail in connection with a murderous assault case registered with the Chuna Bhatti police station in February, 2015.