Nagpur: Fitting fingerprints resulted in the arrest of a burglar that, together with his childhood buddy, had perpetrated a spate of housebreakings from town.
Shanti Nagar authorities have identified the thieves as Rupesh Pande (30) along with Abdul Rehman (30), both inhabitants of Shanti Nagar.
They’re childhood buddies and allegedly researched together in college.
“They formed a group to perpetrate thefts,” said that the authorities.
Cops stated that on April 20, just one Krishna Jha (30, a resident of Tulsi Nagar) had lodged a complaint that a unknown thieves had entered his own two-storey home by breaking up the latch of the primary doorway and decamped with valuables worth Rs5.10 lakh, such as Rs50,000 money.
They perpetrated the theft over half an hour after Jha went into his uncle’s home in the area in 9.30pm.
Shanti Nagar police reached the area and summoned to the forensic staff.
The routine of this theft of never breaking the door’s lock opening the latch rather than making any sound gave the authorities an inkling that a specialist group of thieves might have perpetrated the offense.
To begin with, Pande has been nabbed on the grounds of fingerprint matching.
The cops had accumulated his fingerprints throughout his arrest at a large Rs26 lakh burglary at Karanja Lad.
Afterwards, the police group of senior PI GJ Jamdar beneath PSI Arun Bakal and such as lead constable Abdul Wakil Shaikh, naik constables Vinod Samudre, Prakash Pakhan and many others, trapped Abdul Rehman out of whom the booty values greater than Rs5.30 lakh were retrieved.
Meanwhile, the Kotwali police on Friday night foiled a robbery bid by five men near Gangabai Ghat.
Acting to a tip-off, a Group of Kotwali police headed by PSI Ajay Lingnurkar spanned a secluded location nearby Gangabai Ghat and detained Prajwal Kakde (22, also a resident of Bahadura), Chetan Lokhande (24, a former resident of Wathoda), Aman Bhamode (18, also a resident of Mahal), Praful Shivrejar (26, also a resident of Pardi) and Pankaj Samarth (32, also a resident of Manikpura Chowk).
Police also have recovered a found, blade, nylon rope, peppermint powder and stumps.
Authorities said that the five were planning a prosecution when they had been detained.
The authorities have booked them under divisions 399, browse by 402 of the IPC and 4, 25 of the Arms Act, 135 of Bombay Police Act.