The Commissionerate police on Thursday night arrested two persons from a shopping mall while the miscreants were shopping after robbing a house at VSS Nagar of the city after the cops got a message.
Sources said the robbers had barged into the house of an elderly woman living alone in the VSS Nagar and decamped with ornaments and other valuables including bank debit cards at gunpoint.
On receiving information, the Saheed Nagar police traced the movement of the thieves with GPS tracking of the message received after the robbers withdrew cash from an ATM with the help of the looted debit card.
A special team of police caught the looters red handed while they were trying to buy laptops and mobile phones from a home appliances showroom in Patia.
After investigation, police found that the robbers had looted 100 gram gold ornaments, Rs 20,000 cash and other valuables from the elderly woman.
“I was watching TV when two youths barged into the house and gagged my mouth with tape.
They threatened me to remain silent by brandishing a gun and snatched my necklace and some other gold ornaments,” the complainant Malabika Chand said.