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A Hyderabad-based bundle nonrecreational was arrested for his alleged engagement successful 26 night-time burglaries from houses, a constabulary authoritative said connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026).
The accused, identified arsenic Acchi Mahesh Reddy alias Sunny from Kakinada, allegedly carried retired a bid of offences aft the Sankranti festival and had committed akin crimes past twelvemonth arsenic well, constabulary said.
"We (Vizag police) person arrested a Hyderabad-based bundle nonrecreational connected February 7 for his engagement successful 26 night-time location burglaries and recovered gold, silver, and different stolen spot worthy implicit Rs. 15 lakh," Vizag Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crimes), K. Lata Madhuri told PTI.
Acting connected method grounds and CCTV analysis, constabulary arrested the accused adjacent Arch Road successful Gajuwaka and recovered 699 grams of gold, 3.8 kg of silver, a BMW car purchased with stolen money, and house-breaking tools. The accused smartly ensured that helium did not permission fingerprints oregon immoderate different grounds astatine the transgression scene, Ms. Madhuri said.
The DCP said the offender targeted houses during nighttime hours and is suspected to person conducted recce during the daytime, though helium has not admitted to it truthful far.
The constabulary besides recovered that the two-wheeler utilized for the offences belonged to a idiosyncratic named Mahesh, who was unaware that his conveyance was being utilized for robberies.
The lawsuit came to airy aft a nonmigratory of Gajuwaka lodged a ailment connected October 14, 2025, stating that his location was burgled portion helium was distant with his family.
Based connected the complaint, the Gajuwaka constabulary registered a lawsuit nether sections 331(4) and 305(a) of the BNS and launched an investigation.
Ms. Madhuri said akin thefts were reported successful Gajuwaka, Arilova, Malkapuram, Pendurthi, and Duvvada areas, linking the accused to 26 cases wrong Visakhapatnam city.
In these cases, implicit 1,080 grams of gold, astir 6,333 grams of silver, and currency worthy Rs. 40,500 were stolen, with the cumulative worth estimated astatine astir Rs. 25 lakh.
The DCP said the accused had a agelong transgression past and archetypal went to a juvenile jailhouse astatine the property of 15 successful Kakinada, wherever a Dossier Criminal (DC) expanse was opened against him.
"We volition unfastened a rowdy expanse against him present arsenic a DC expanse already exists successful Kakinada. For now, helium has been placed nether preventive detention for 1 year," the DCP said.
