Piplani police have busted a three-member gang of miscreants involved in 29 burglaries and two robberies and recovered gold and silver jewelleries and lED TV worth Rs 6 lakh obtained from burglaries and valuables worth Rs 70000 obtained from robberies on Sunday.
Police nabbed liyaqat Ali from Sanjay Nagar on February 12 and recovered a jeep from his possession and when he was questioned he confessed committing burglaries and robberies along with Nasir Khan, Waseem and Anwar.
Based on the information Nasir Khan was nabbed and the two were produced in the court. later in the investigation on Sunday Waseem was nabbed who confessed burgalaries along with Anwar, liyaqat and Nasir for the past one year.
The fourth accused Anwar went absconding and is still at large police have started search for the accused.
The accused are middle aged which help in evading suspicion. They would recce the houses during the day taking turns and in the night they would use to liyaqat’s jeep to carry the burgled valuables.
liyaqat and Nasir are residents of the city while Waseem is a resident of Begumganj.
In Piplani police station area accused targeted Bharat Nagar, Chatrasal Nagar, B-Sector, Sunder Nagar, Karamveer Ngar, Gayatri Nagar and committed 11 burglaries.
In the same manner two burlaries were committed under Ayodhya Nagar police station area, five burglaries each were committed under Awadhpuri police station area and Baghsewania police station area and three each were committed under Shahpura and Govindpura police station area.
The gang committed two robberies in the month of December 2017 in Indrapuri and Sonagiri areas.
The gang is in active in the state capital since 2016 and would target houses in deserted places across the city.