City Crime Branch and Surathkal police arrested four notorious thieves involved in burgling 13 shrines and seven houses from 2018 to 2021 and recovered valuables worth over Rs 40 lakh.
Mangaluru Commissioner of Police N Shashi Kumar told media persons at Commissioners hall on Thursday that Naga Naik from Tarikere in Chikkamagaluru district had burgled 13 shrines and two houses. One Maruthi C V from Channagiri in Davangere district, who used to dispose of the stolen gold and silver jewellery, was also arrested.
He said that gold and silver jewellery worth over Rs 28 lakh were recovered from the accused men.
As many as 13 cases had been filed against Naga Nayak in Urwa, Bajpe, Surathkal, Mulki, Panambur, Kavoor and Ullal police stations.
“Naik’s fingerprints matched with the fingerprints recovered from the temples burgled by him,” he said.
Surathkal police arrested Rajan Chinna Thambi (57) and P B Pramod from Coimbatore and recovered 366.632 grams of gold jewellery worth Rs 16.50 lakh.
Rajan was a notorious inter-state burglar and had cases registered against him in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.
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