A miscreant burgled the Hanuman temple situated in the New Market, situated hardly few metres from the TT Nagar Police Station, late on Wednesday night. The offender was nabbed in the morning, as the mother of the thief had intimated police.
Police have arrested the thief and recovered Rs10,000 in cash and other goods stolen from the temple. The offender was caught from slums near Patrakar colony.
According to the police, late night on Wednesday cash from donation box of Hanuman temple at New Market was stolen. A complaint was lodged with the TT Nagar police and the police claimed that based on the description of the suspect provided by the locals the police searched for the accused in the Jehangirabad area and was caught counting the money stolen from the donation box.
When pujari of the temple Pandit Rajesh reached the temple on Thursday morning he found that the donation box was broken and the cash was missing from the donation box.
A complaint was lodged with TT Nagar police by the victim. In the preliminary investigation the police suspected that the miscreant might be from Jehangirabad area and started searching.
In the investigation the locals and devotees confirmed that a man was roaming in a suspicious condition near the temple.
Police said that the incident took place between 11.30 pm to 6.30 am and the cash in the donation box was burgled. The cash recovered from the miscreant would be around Rs10,000.
The accused has been booked earlier for burglary and theft in Jehangirabad and TT Nagar area and had served jail term earlier.