Police bust four gangs, recover Rs 71 lakh property

Hyderabad, Nov 3 (INN): In a major breakthrough, the sleuths of Central Crime Station busted four different gangs of property offenders who were involved in many cases.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, City Police Commissioner AK Khan said that the gangs were involved in 33 cases and the police Stolen property worth nearly Rs 71 lakh has been recovered in all cases.

On tip off, the CCS Police arrested two gangs of two wheeler offenders. The first gang, comprising of accused Mohd. Imran, Mohd. Afsar Ahmed and Mohd Shafiuddin, was involved in 19 cases of two wheeler thefts. Another gang, comprising of Syed Samiullah and Mohd. Aslam, was found involved in six offences.

Based on their confessions, the CCS officials recovered 25 two-wheelers which were stolen in the limits of South Zone and West Zone of Hyderabad City.

According to the Police Commissioner, the accused persons used to carry a bunch of duplicate keys in their pocket and visit various parking places in the city.

They committed theft of two wheelers as it was easy to open the lock with a duplicate key. After committing the offences they kept the stolen vehicles at various places and later tried to sell them at low price.

In another case, two persons - Mohd. Samiuddin and Narasimha have been arrested for allegedly committing the theft of four-wheeler vehicles in the city. On their confession, one Chevrolet Tavera, one Toyota Innova, one TATA Indigo and one Hundai Santro have been recovered.

AK Khan said that the duo further confessed to have committed theft of six more four wheeler vehicles in the limits of Hyderabad City. Efforts are on to recover these vehicles.

The CCS has also busted two members of a gang of property offenders. The accused - Mohd. Mustafa and Rakesh Sarkar have been arrested while the other accused Trilok Chand Tak and Sai Kishore are absconding.

According to Police Commissioner, the gang was involved in burglary in a jewellery shop and cases of two wheeler thefts. So far, the accused confessed to have committed four offences and based on their confession 114 pieces of gold ornaments weighing about 80 tolas and silver items of about 6 Kgs, one Auto trolly and one Hero Honda Passion Plus motor cycle have been recovered from their possession.

In all, the CCS detected 26 cases of two wheeler offences, four cases of four-wheeler thefts and three cases of house-breaking. AK Khan has appreciated the work done by Inspector M Ravinder Reddy and Special Team headed by sub-inspector Mohammad Amjad of the CCS-Detective Department.