Dhamtari, 23 May (HIST). Police have arrested two accused who broke the lock of an abandoned house and stole cash and jewelery kept there. Police have taken action by seizing gold and silver jewelery from the accused.
According to the information received from City Kotwali Police, on 19 May, the applicant Praveen Chand Isar, 34 years, son of Suresh Chand Isar, Bathenapara Dhamtari, locked his house and went to Nagari with his family. On 22 May, at six in the morning, the applicant's neighbor Manoj Urao called and told that the lock of his house is broken. When the applicant returned home with his family, he saw that the lock of the main door of the applicant's house was broken. The items inside the house were scattered. The lock of the cupboard was broken. Some unknown thief had stolen the items kept in the cupboard of the house, a pair of gold tops, a gold ring, a gold chain, two pairs of silver anklets, a pair of silver anklets, two silver bracelets. On the applicant's report, the police registered a crime against the unknown accused in the Kotwali police station and was engaged in investigation.
To catch the thieves, the police scanned the CCTV footage around the crime scene. People were questioned. During this time, the police received information from an informer and on the basis of evidence, the suspects Suresh Tiwari and Deepak alias Bablu Sahu were taken into custody and strictly questioned. The accused accepted breaking the lock of an empty house and committing theft. The accused told that both of them together broke the lock of the gate of an empty house in Bathenapara Dhamtari with a rod with the intention of committing theft and entered the house and stole the gold and silver jewellery kept in the cupboard of the room and hid it under a stone near a bush on the other side of the canal. The police seized the jewellery from the accused. The police have registered a case against the accused by confiscating the iron rod used in breaking the lock. The arrested accused include Suresh Tiwari, 33 years, Tikrapara Dhamtari and Deepak alias Bablu Sahu, 19 years, Station Para (Dabra Para), Dhamtari.