The Bagh Sewania police on Tuesday busted a five-member gang of thieves and recovered valuables worth Rs 15 lakh from their possession; accused confessed 8 crimes of burglaries and thefts.
SSP Raman Singh Sikawar, while speaking with the media persons on Tuesday, said that after the increased number of burglaries and thefts in the past few months strict vigil was started and which proved
useful resulting in nabbing of five-member gang involved in burglaries and thefts which they used to commit in a very short period of time of 15 minutes and due to the short period consumed they used to commit crimes during day time and in nights.
With the arrest of these miscreants the nexus working for the disposal of the burgled goods would be unearthed, he added. The nabbed miscreants have been identified as Shahrukh Ansari , Vinod Dhurve, Praveen Pushkar, Deepak Dhuriya and Sachin Chouhan. Shahrukh, Vinod and Praveen have
been involved in burglary, theft, bullying and physical assault.
The police have recovered 300 gm of gold, 1.2 kg of silver and two cars worth Rs 15 lakh. Police have claimed that the gang member confessed burglaries at Saket Nagar, Surendra Palace, Vidhya Nagar, Baghmughalia and Habibganj areas.
During the investigation the accused confessed that they have availed loan by keeping the burgled gold as security and based on the information the recovery of the gold has been started.
It was also found that the nabbed miscreants have links with the criminals involved in burglary for long and which would be investigated said the police.