Madanayakanahally Police Arrest Burglar, Valuables worth Rs 54 lakh seized
Bengaluru: The Madanayakanahally Police arrested a youth in connection with the house theft of a young entrepreneur and recovered 1.127 kg gold and 400 grams of Silver all worth Rs 54 lakh from his possession here on September 14.
The arrested has been identified as Manju K H alias Manjunath alias Hanumantha Naik (26) from Indiranagar, Bengaluru.
According to the police, On 29, September 2019, a young entrepreneur and owner of the villa, 65 Godrej gold county in Chikkabidarakallu village, Bengaluru Rural, Chetan along with his family had gone to Singapore and returned on October 5, 2019. When they returned, they found that the Gold and silver ornaments from the house were missing. Chethan immediately filed a complaint in the Madanayakanahally Police Station.
The Madanayakanahally police registered a case under sections 454, 457, and 380 IPC and started investigating. Considering it to be a serious case, senior police officers constituted a team led by Inspector K P Satyanarayan. The investigating team with the help of Fingerprint experts, Dog squad, and technical officials were unable to find any clue.
But the investigation continued with questioning the workers in the villa, security guards, gardeners, housekeeping staff, electricians, drivers, milk boy and paperboy. The team interrogated almost 150 people to get to the accused. Finally, the accused was arrested after 10 months of the crime. The accused Manju was working as a driver in Chetan’s house.
The incident took place in the Godrej Villa community layout. The villa has a compound wall with security guards and access to only those working in the villa and the neighbours. However, as the attached bathroom of the room with the jewels had a leakage issue, the north Indian workers from the Godrej organization used to loiter in that area to fix the leakage. The accused took it as an opportunity to get into the house when the power went off, and the CCTV cameras were not working, assuming that no one would suspect his involvement in the crime. The accused also took care of not leaving any evidence including his fingerprints. But as the team worked day and night on the case, their efforts paid off. When Chethan and his family were out of the country, Manju had entered the house from the sliding window and stolen the gold and silver ornaments. Manju had sold the gold and also pawned some and built a house in his home town, Hassan.
Under the direction of IGP Central Range Seemant Kumar Singh IPS, and under the guidance of Bengaluru Rural Superintendant of police Ravi D Chennannavar IPS, and Additional SP Lakshmi Ganesh KSPS and Nelamangala Sub Division DySP B S Mohan Kumar KSPS, the operation was carried out by Inspector K P Dathyanarayana, SI M N Murali, Devikadevi and ASI Ningarajegowda, PC Lakshman H, Parvez Pasha, Imrankhan S, Ravikumar H, Shivappagoudar, Shivakumar, Sanjay, and Ravinaik.
IGP Central Range Seemant Kumar Singh IPS visited Madanaykanahally police station. Later during a press meet announced Rs One Lakh reward to the investigating team and issued commendation certificates.