Gold ornaments worth Rs. 13.85 lakh recovered

Mysore/Mysuru: Lashkar Police have arrested a person on charges of committing pickpockets and stealing luggage of passengers from KSRTC buses and have recovered 277 grams gold ornaments worth Rs. 13.85 lakh from him.

The arrested person is 37-year-old Mohammed Imran, a resident of Thyagaraja Colony, next to Lashkar Masjid in Madikeri town, Kodagu district. He is an habitual offender, who has cases already registered at Lashkar Police Station.

On Jan. 16, 2020, a woman, who was travelling from Ramanagar to Madikeri in a KSRTC bus had kept her bag in the luggage carrier and when she looked at the luggage carrier when the bus reached Mysuru, the bag in which she had kept her gold ornaments was missing following which she lodged a complaint at Lashkar Police Station.

On Sept. 15, Lashkar Police, who were on their regular beat at the KSRTC Bus Stand, saw Imran moving around in the bus stand in a suspicious manner, took him into custody and when they interrogated him at the Police Station, the accused is said to have confessed of stealing purses and bags of women travelling in KSRTC buses during Dec. 2019 and Jan. 2020. 

He also revealed that he had sold the gold ornaments found in the purses and bags he had stolen to jewellery shops in city and based on the information provided by the accused, the Police have recovered 277 grams gold ornaments worth Rs. 13.85 lakh from him. Following his arrest, the Police have solved four cases at Lashkar Police Station.

DCPs Dr. A.N. Prakash Gowda and Geetha Prasanna and Devaraja Sub-Division ACP M.S. Poornachandra Tejaswi supervised Lashkar Inspector S.D. Suresh Kumar, Sub-Inspectors Gowtham Gowda and Dhanalakshmi and staff K.N. Lokesh, R. Mahadevaswamy, Bopaiah, Adam, A. Manjunath Prathip and Chinnappa M. Kalloli, took part in the nabbing and recovery operation, according to a press release from the PRO, City Police Commissioner’s Office, Mysuru.