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Sri Sathya Sai territory constabulary connected Wednesday cracked a long-standing way of location burglaries by arresting a five-member inter-State pack progressive successful aggregate crimes crossed Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for astir 2 years. The arrests came aft a abrupt spike successful complaints of thefts from locked houses, peculiarly successful Hindupur and the district’s surrounding mandals.
Addressing a property league here, Superintendent of Police (SP) S. Satish Kumar said the arrests led to the betterment of 309.13 grams of golden ornaments, 3,010 grams of silver, and 3 motorcycles, collectively valued astatine astir ₹40 lakh.
The gang’s kingpin, Ratna Raju alias Teja, a autochthonal of Guntur, had a staggering 55 cases against him dispersed implicit assorted constabulary stations successful the 2 Telugu States. The remaining accused — Babu Prasad, Ganga Raju, Uppara Suresh, and Siddiq Saab — hail from Hindupur and bordering areas of Karnataka. Several of them already look aggregate cases of location break-ins.
The SP said the pack operated with precision. They surveyed neighbourhoods during the day, identified houses locked by families leaving for enactment oregon travel, and struck during late-night hours. A peculiar squad was constituted 20 days agone nether the supervision of Deputy SP (Hindupur) K.V. Mahesh, which tracked suspicious movements, analysed CCTV footage, and utilized method surveillance to zero successful connected the suspects.
The arrests were made aboriginal Wednesday morning, and during interrogation, the men confessed to engagement successful 10 burglaries nether assorted constabulary presumption limits, including Hindupur Town, Hindupur Rural, Somandepalli, Lepakshi, Gorantla, Kadiri, and Chilamathur.
SP Satish Kumar urged residents to instal CCTV cameras successful their houses, noting that specified systems were becoming captious tools successful some preventing and solving spot offences. “People tin show their homes from anywhere, and successful lawsuit of a crime, CCTV footage ensures swift recognition and arrest,” helium said.
