With the arrest of two persons, police on Sunday claimed to have cracked 12 cases of burglary and house thefts in the Kalkaji area of South Delhi. Stolen goods worth over Rs 10 lakh were recovered.
Twenty two-year-old Vikram, a resident of 24 Paraganas in West Bengal, was arrested with his landlord Gopal Mandal. “A special team was set up to deal with the rise in incidents of burglary and theft in the area. A trap was laid near Nehru Place. Vikram was apprehended on Sunday along with a bag containing two laptops and six mobile phones,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East) P Karunakaran. Vikram confessed that he had sold most of the stolen property to his landlord Gopal Mandal, who was apprehended at his instance.