Five inter-district burglars held; 15 cases solved

In all, ` 10 lakh worth articles recovered from the accused

Arsikere Police have been successful in arresting four inter-district thieves, who were involved in house burglary in various districts and recovered Rs 5 lakh worth articles. By arresting them, the police have solved 15 theft cases.

Addressing media persons, in Hassan, on Monday, Superintendent of Police Raman Gupta said, the gang has been identified as ‘Mylari gang’, comprising seven to eight members. Four of them have been arrested and the search is on to nab the others.

The accused are, Harish, Mylari and Pradeep (all Tiptur taluk) and Srikanth (Turuvekere taluk). Police have recovered 125 gm of gold ornaments, 2.5 kg silver articles, one Pulsar motorbike, one LED television set and one LPG cylinder from them.

With the arrests, four house burglary cases under Arsikere rural police station limits, two in Banavara, four in Javagal, three in Halebeedu and one in Chikkanayakanahalli have been busted.

Following the rising incidence of house burglaries in Arsikere taluk, a team had been constituted under the guidance of Circle Inspector A Thippanna, which arrested the gang on Sunday.

First time robbery

A man who tried his hand in robbery for the first time, single-handedly, was arrested by the police, in Arsikere, recently. The police have arrested Jainuddin, who had burgled a house at Pumphouse in Belur. Jainuddin, a resident of Belur, had worked in several places in the town and later worked at a hotel in Bengaluru.

He had returned to his native recently and had taken to robbery for making quick money. According to police, Jainuddin monitored the houses, where the residents used to keep the key under a flower pot, before leaving and robbed one of them. He used the key to open the door and escaped with 150 gm gold jewels, a mobile tab and others worth Rs 5 lakh. All the articles have been recovered.

Pawn shops

The burglars had pledged some of the articles with private pawn brokers and a probe is on in this regard. Action would be taken against pawn brokers, if they had taken the articles even after knowing that they had been stolen, the SP said. Additional Superintendent of Police J K Rashmi was also present.