Bangalore: The north division police have cracked 194 cases and arrested 147 people in the last three months. Valuables worth Rs 4.44 crore have been recovered.
The recovered property includes 4.92 kg of gold jewellery worth Rs 1.48 crore, Rs 51.52 lakh in cash, 100 two-wheelers worth Rs 43.98 lakh and other goods.
The Peenya police have arrested a woman who stole gold jewellery belonging to her landlord. The accused has been identified as Bhagya.
Bhagya and her husband Nagendra, who lived in a house owned by Gopal in Mallasandra, hatched a plan to carry out the theft. Bhagya, who befriended her landlord’s wife, Padma found out that she had a handsome collection of gold jewellery and decided to steal it.
On December 13, she went to Padma’s house on the pretext of offering her biryani. Meanwhile, Padma went to take a bath and taking advantage of the situation, Bhagya snatched the almirah keys and stole 170 grams of gold jewellery kept in it.
“When Padma stepped out of the bathroom, Bhagya had already left the house. Padma realised she had been robbed when she opened the almirah,” the police said.
On reaching Padma’s place, the police found Bhagya’s behaviour suspicious. When asked for her fingerprints, Bhagya said that her finger prints would be on almirah as she was a regular visitor. However, the finger prints did match with hers and during interrogation she confessed to the theft,” the police said.
She had kept the stolen jewels at her mother’s house in Vijayanagar and it was recovered, the police added.
In yet another case, the Peenya police arrested three people for allegedly stealing machines from a factory in Makali in Madanayakanahalli police station limits. They were identified as Suresh, 41, Vijay Naik, 31, both were security guards at the factory, and Thamma Naik, 24, the driver of the transport vehicle.
“Recently, Suresh was held in a dacoity case and he confessed to the theft. Goods worth Rs 54 lakh was recovered from them,” the police added.
