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Police arrested a six-member pack successful transportation with the theft of computers and different instrumentality worthy respective lakhs of rupees from the Government Women and Children Hospital, Ponnani.
The stolen items included computers, centrifugal pump sets, batteries and different electrical equipment.
The accused were identified arsenic Shafeeq Moosammakkanakath, 26, Shahad Thareekkanakath, 24, Nasil Koorattan Valappil, 22, Sifarath Kaliyarakath, 21, Fahad Thareekkanakath, 20, and Aslam Chokkantakath, 23, each from Ponnani and adjacent areas.
The constabulary said the radical stole materials worthy ₹3 lakh from a gathering nether operation for a caller isolation ward astatine the hospital. The thefts were carried retired implicit respective nights, and the stolen goods were reportedly transported connected scooters.
Hospital authorities noticed repeated thefts astir 10 days agone and conducted an interior inspection. Suspicion arose aft robust rods were recovered down the building. A surveillance camera was past installed astatine the site, which aboriginal captured the accused removing and transporting materials.
Based connected CCTV footage and consequent surveillance, constabulary identified and arrested the suspects.
Police said the stolen items were sold astatine debased prices to a scrap trader astatine Maramuttathu. The accused were produced earlier a tribunal and remanded successful judicial custody.
