The District Crime Branch (DCB) rounded up a gang of thieves and seized valuables worth Rs3.40 lakh from their possession.
Four persons were arrested in this connection who confessed of committing theft in seven different shops, police said on Thursday.
The accused were identified as Suraj Netam (25), Ajay Chouhan (23), Chandu Soni (18) and Durgesh Tiwari (22) all residents of Amanaka area Raipur.
The DCB In-charge Vishal Son informed that they had got information that some suspected persons in an auto rickshaw (CG-04 T-9460) were roaming around Nandani Township. They were in search of buyers for selling ornaments, mobile phones, hard disk drive, CUP and other electronic gazettes on throw-away prices.
Acting on the input a DCB team swung into action and rounded up the accused four of them with auto rickshaw. The gang was then interrogated about valuables they were possessing to which they could not present any satisfactory reply. They were then subjected to thorough interrogation wherein the gang members told the police that they had stolen the valuables from different shops in Ahivara, Amleshwar, Prasada areas. An auto rickshaw was used to carry out the theft, the DCB in-charge said.
Mobile phones, hard disk drives, artificial ornaments, lCD Monitors, printer, photo copy machine and other objects all worth Rs3.40 lakh were seized from their possession.