Two alert cops avert theft

Two alert constables, on night beat, attached to Malleswaram Police Station thwarted a theft attempt at a jewellery shop located on Margosa Road under Malleshwaram police limits in the early hours of Tuesday.

According to police, Ponnappa, head constable and Ramaswamy, police constable, were on night patrol.

While they were on Margosa road at around 2 am, they heard a noise near Raj Jewellery shop.
Near the entrance, they noticed a man running off to the rear side in the narrow gap between the jewellery shop and a neighbouring shop.

The constables tried chasing the miscreant but in vain, as he had jumped the rear wall and escaped.  They found two hacksaw blades, a hand glove, one cutting plier and a water bottle.
Ponnappa said they heard a noise and as they approached the shop, they noticed the man escaping.

The miscreants had pasted a white paper on the CCTV camera fixed outside the shop, so that their act is not recorded.

DCP (North) Sandip Patil said the two alert constables had averted a major theft. The owner of the shop was later informed about the theft. The police have sought the footage of the CCTV camera placed inside the jewellery shop .

A complaint is yet to be lodged by the shop owner. The two constables will be awarded, th­­e officer said.

Mobile shops raided

CCB sleuths carried out a raid on three shops on SP Road selling fake mobile phone accessories on Monday.

The sleuths raided Maruthi Mobiles, two other shops with the same name, Rajeshwar Mobile Accessories and arrested four people. They recovered fake mobile phone accessories worth Rs 4 lakh.

They used to sell the accessories under the brand names of Samsung, Sony, Nokia and others.
When the arrested were quizzed, they said that they got the supply of the accessories from Mumbai and Delhi.

Chain snatching: 3 held

The Mahadevapura Police recently arrested three persons involved in chain snatching.
The arrested Mani, Saleem and Raja, all residents of Udaynagar, confessed to the crime upon interrogation. The police recovered two gold chain worth Rs 1 lakh and two bikes used to commit the crime.

Woman’s chain snatched

Two bike-borne miscreants made away with a gold chain from an elderly woman in OMBR Layout under Ramamuthy Nagar police limits on Tuesday morning.

Police said Kasthuri Subramaniam, 58, was taking her dog for a walk near her house at 7 am, when two miscreants who came on a bike made away with her gold chain weighing 80 gm. She raised an alarm and neighbours rushed to nab the miscreants. But they sped away with the chain.

Two-wheelers recovered

The Mahadevapura police arrested a person and recovered  nine two-wheelers. Joseph, a resident of Yelahanka, used to lift vehicles from Hebbal, Mahadevapura, Jigani and surrounding areas.

He targeted bikes parked in front of residences or deserted areas. He used to open the locks of the  bikes with duplicate keys and make away with the vehicles, police said.