Dehradun police arrested one inter-state thief and recovered stolen items worth Rs5.87 lakh from his possession. Police claimed to have solved several burglary cases reported recently in the state capital. The accused has been identified as lalit Bairwa, native of Rajasthan, who was currently living at his in-laws' home in Dehradun, said Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Rautela while interacting with media persons on Tuesday.
Rautela said that in view of increasing burglary cases in the state capital, several teams including Special Operation Group were formed to search for the culprits. Police received a tip off about a person moving around Bannu School area with intent to committing crime. Acting on the tip off, police arrested lalit Bairwa alias Amit Gupta on Monday evening and recovered stolen items from his possession.
During interrogation, he confessed his crimes. Based on interrogation, police recovered items reported stolen in two cases in Nehru Colony, one case in Raipur, two in Rajpur and one each in Kotwali and Patelnagar police stations.Nehru Colony Police Station in charge PS Koshyari said that during interrogation, he disclosed his name as lalit Bairwa alias Amit Gupta and his father who died in the year 1998 was former commissioner in Municipal Corporation, Kota (Rajasthan).
His mother who died in 2004 was a doctor in a private hospital. The accused got married to a resident of Vasant Vihar in Dehradun in 2010 . Bairwa had completed BCom from Subodh College, Jaipur and BBA from Kota based private institute.
He completed his MBA first year from Symbiosis College, Pune and began committing crimes from 2000. According to the accused, he alone was committing burglaries in locked homes in Rajasthan and Dehradun. Several theft cases were registered against him in Rajasthan and he was sentenced also sentenced to three years imprisonment in Rajasthan. He came out of jail in Rajasthan in January, 2014 and shifted to Dehradun. Bairwa burglarised several houses under several police station areas for which cases were registered against him in Dehradun.