Hyderabad, July 07: Eight persons of three gangs who were involved in several property offences were arrested by the police and stolen property worth several lakhs including nearly 35 tola of gold ornaments and Rs 3 lakh cash were recovered from them. The arrested include a three-member family who are involved in attentiondiversion cases.
East Zone DCP Mahesh Chandra Laddha and Central Crime Station (CCS) DCP J Satyanarayana said at a joint press conference here today that the family of three-members were involved in 10 offences of attention diversion cases and theft of gold ornaments from passengers in crowded buses.
The accused are B Samuel, his son, Sai Kumar and the son’s husband, Vijaya alias Manga, who are residents of Thattiannaram in Hayathnagar. They are natives of Giddalur in Prakasam district. Samuel’s wife, Gangamani alias Leela Kumari, who is absconding, is also a member of the gang and all of them were arrested earlier by the police. The family members move in an auto and commit thefts.
Police said they approach elderly people and on the pretext of warning them about theft of their valuables, they steal the ornaments in the garb of securing them in a hand bag. In one case at MGBS, they offered badam milk laced with sedatives to an elderly woman and stole her ornaments.
Police recovered 14 tola gold ornaments, Rs 9,000 and an auto from them. Meanwhile, the CCS and East Zone police nabbed a three-member gang of pick-pocketers and recovered Rs 2.90 lakh cash from them. The trio, K S Dharam, Satyam and L Santosh, all hailing from Afzalsagar, are nabbed at Koti while they were moving under suspicious circumstances.
They were involved in 13 pick-pocketing offences, Laddha and Satyanarayana said.
Police said Dharam is the leader of the gang and he is organising pick-pocketers in the twin cities.
Meanwhile, the Malakpet police today nabbed two persons, Abdul Rehan Khan alias Omar and Mohd Mansoor (both from Yakutpura and students) for their involvement of 11 snatchings in Malakpet, Chaderghat, Saidabad, Madannapet and other areas in the city. Police recovered 20 tola gold worth Rs 3,60 lakh from them.
Omer is the son of a hardware merchant while Mansoor of an auto driver. “They wanted to lead a lavish life like visiting pubs, hotels, watching movies and smoking and to fulfill them they started committing offences,’’ police said.
–Agencies