Mangalore, October 10: A notorious Nepali thief, who had walked free, after being arrested on charges of theft in March 2010, was again arrested along with his associate on separate theft charges on Sunday.
Personnel of Mangalore East (Kadri) police station arrested Karan Khadga (37), hailing from Pimi Bajhang district in West Nepal, and residing at Thokkottu near here for the past 18 years, and his associate Gyanendra Singh (20), from Bajhang district in West Nepal.
With this, police solved a theft case registered in Mangalore East police station, where thieves had decamped with valuables worth Rs 1.15 lakhs including two laptops and a mobile phone from “Target Marketing Services” office belonging to P K Kushalappa Gowda at Kadri Kambala here.
It can be recalled that Khadga and his seven other associates from Nepal had targeted the house of M V Shetty, a leading physician here when no one was at home and decamped with gold jewellery and other valuables worth Rs 1.55 crore.
He also had committed theft of jewellery and other valuables worth Rs. 7 lakh from the house of Bharath Alva, located near Padav School, Mangalore.
Khadga had also confessed that he was also one of the master minds of the theft occurred in the house of Dr AB Shetty, in the city, where jewellery and valuables of worth Rs. 15 million were stolen in 2009.
Illegal immigrant
According to police, Karan Khadga penetrated in to India in 1993 and married Sita, a local woman and also succeeded in receiving voter ID through fake documents. He also owns a house at Kumpala Ashraya Colony at Someshwara village benefitting under 'Ashraya' government scheme.
Gyanendra Singh, Karan Khadga
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