<p class="title">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that gold and silver jewellery worth over Rs 28 lakh were recovered from the accused men.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 13 cases had been filed against Naga Nayak in Urwa, Bajpe, Surathkal, Mulki, Panambur, Kavoor and Ullal police stations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Naik’s fingerprints matched with the fingerprints recovered from the temples burgled by him,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajan was a notorious inter-state burglar and had cases registered against him in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.</p>.<p><strong>Check out the latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>
<p class="title">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that gold and silver jewellery worth over Rs 28 lakh were recovered from the accused men.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 13 cases had been filed against Naga Nayak in Urwa, Bajpe, Surathkal, Mulki, Panambur, Kavoor and Ullal police stations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Naik’s fingerprints matched with the fingerprints recovered from the temples burgled by him,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajan was a notorious inter-state burglar and had cases registered against him in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.</p>.<p><strong>Check out the latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>