Three youths allegedly involved in theft of 1.5 kg gold ornaments from veteran actor Hema Malini’s residence were arrested from Rajmahal subdivision in Sahibganj district of State by a team of Patna Police with cooperation of local police on Friday evening.
Patna SSP Manu Maharaj confirmed their involvement in the theft. He said that they were also involved in theft of jewellery worth Rs 1 crore from a jewellery shop namely Kasturi Jwellers in Patna.
He said that the three had been arrested but their mastermind was still not nabbed. “We have not been able to nab their masterminds. But we have been able to find out details about them. We hope to nab them within three days. We have also not been able to recover the jewellery,” he said.
Maharaj, however refused to share more information about the masterminds saying that revealing more might be helpful for the accused and it might make difficult the investigation and further operations.
House in charge of Rajmahal police station Rajeev Ranjan said that the three youths were Wahid, Majer and Atiur Rahman and all were of ages between 20 to 22 years. He said that the two of them Wahid and Majer were brothers.
The third accused Atiur Rahman was arrested because he sold the SIM cards that were used by the two main accused. He agreed to be the prosecution witness.
According to Rajeev Ranjan, the two prime accused were among the seventeen siblings of their parents. They are 10 brothers and seven sisters.