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Three members of a pack progressive successful a convulsive location robbery astatine an flat successful East Marredpally earlier this period were arrested connected Tuesday during a associated cognition by the Commissioner’s Task Force, Secunderabad Zone, and the Lalaguda police. The officials recovered 28.8 grams of golden ornaments worthy astir ₹4.5 lakh.
The accused, identified arsenic Gurrappagari Mahesh, 36, a labourer, Chinnakotla Pavan Kumar alias Bavanna, 48, a operation worker, and Geeju Surendra, 37, each natives of Cheekirevulapalle colony successful Sri Sathya Sai territory of Andhra Pradesh, were apprehended adjacent Secunderabad Railway Station successful the aboriginal hours portion attempting to determination retired of the city.
During the arrest, constabulary recovered 18.15-gram golden chain, 3.15-gram golden digit ringing and a 7.52-gram golden bangle, on with 2 mobile phones.
Investigations revealed that the premier accused Mahesh had antecedently worked arsenic a watchman astatine Arihant Sadan Apartment from October 2021 to May 2024 and was acquainted with the gathering layout and residents’ routines. After returning to his autochthonal colony and moving arsenic a labourer, helium conspired with the different 2 accused to perpetrate a robbery to conscionable idiosyncratic expenses.
On January 21, 2026, Mahesh and Pavan travelled to Hyderabad, entered a third-floor level successful the flat analyzable and threatened the occupant earlier robbing her of the golden ornaments she was wearing. They past fled the country and regrouped with Surendra successful Secunderabad earlier travelling to Karnataka, wherever they shared the stolen spot and dispersed.
Police said the premier accused has a transgression past and is progressive successful 2 kidnapping cases registered astatine Karkhana constabulary presumption successful 2024, portion the 2nd accused was recovered to beryllium progressive successful a execution lawsuit registered successful Bengaluru successful 2019.
To ace the case, the Secunderabad Task Force and Lalaguda constabulary formed 5 peculiar teams and tracked the question of the accused done quality inputs and surveillance earlier apprehending them.
