IN a major crackdown, police busted a gang of seven burglars behind thirteen burglaries and confiscated gold and silver jewelleries and valuables worth over Rs 64 lakh cumulatively from its possession in Bhilai. With working on inputs and constant shadowing of suspects the police succeeded in busting the gang along with recovery of the booty, informed Ram Gopal Garg, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Durg. He was addressing the mediapersons at Police Control Room in Bhilai on Monday. SSP Garg informed that in the burglaries reportedly occurred in twin cities of Bhilai and Durg, with tracking of criminal elements and investigation on basis of modus operandi of crime, the specially constituted police teams finally busted the gang with nabbing seven burglars.

 

In this connection the police arrested three more persons including two women for buying ill gotten jewelleries and valuables. Among the accused arrested by police were identified Saqlain Khan (25), a resident of Ayyappa Nagar, Bhilai; Mohammed Shayan Rizvi alias Arhan(21), Farhan Khan (25) and Tauqeer Hamza (21), all residents of Farid Nagar, Supela, Bhilai; Viahsal Singh alias Marcha (31) and Alok Sao (20), both residents of Chhaoni, Bhilai and Akash Yadav alias Goldy (23), a resident of Hanuman Nagar, Durg; Kajal Mandal (51), a resident of Aditya Nagar, Durg, Sheikh Noushad Ali(36), a resident o Takiyapara, Durg and Rita Choudhary (35), a resident of Chhaoni, Bhilai. Elaborating upon modus operandi of the gang behind housebreaking crimes, SSP Garg informed that the investigation revealed that the gang members used to conduct recce in daytime in twowheeler in different areas and they used to commit burglaries after targeting locked houses.

 

After being apprehended the gang members confessed their involvement in burglaries reportedly occurred in the twin cities. The police have recovered gold jewelleries weighing 934 grams, 2.7 kilograms silver jewelleries, 2 laptops, 2 digital cameras, 1 motor-pump, 5 smart watches and also a motorbike and a moped used ing committing burglaries. Replying queries regarding increasing incidents of housebreaking crimes in twin cities, SSP Garg asserted that the police have already enhanced vigil and implemented preventive measures to curb the crimes and as it also reflected in substantially declined data of property related offences recorded this year in comparison of previous years.