Mangalore, October 27: A motorbike ride by two youth without the protective headgears helped Mangalore city police to crack at least five theft cases under the limits of Commissionerate.
Sleuths attached to Mangalore East Police Station succeeded in arresting three thieves after two of them were stopped by a patrolling police for riding motorbike without helmet during a vehicle inspection spree on Kadrikambla road in the city on Friday.
The arrested are Harish Poojary alias Harish (35) son of Naryana Poojary, a resident of Kulavoor village in Mangalore taluk, Ramesh alias Raju alias Muniswamy (32), son of Raju from Chandregowda Estate, Ooty in Tamil Nadu, who was residing at Pandeshwar, Mangalore and Vishwanath Devadiga alias Vishwa (28), son of Sundara Devadiga of Hosangadi village in Belthangady taluk.
Police have also recovered stolen property worth Rs 1,62,675 from the accused.
It is learnt that all three arrested had a crime record and cases were registered against them in various police stations in and around Mangalore and Tamil Nadu.
A police press release issued here stated that when Inspector Raghav S Padil of Mangalore East Police station and his subordinates interrogated the motorbike-borne duo, it was revealed that they had stolen the same two-wheeler from a house in Kadri Hills in the city in August 2012. The owner of the motorbike identified as Kiran Kumar had in fact lodged a complaint with police after losing his 1986 model Hero Honda.
While the police subjected the motorbike rider Harish and pillion rider Vishwanath to a rigorous interrogation, they admitted that they had involved in several theft cases. Based on the information given by the duo, police managed to arrest one of their associates Ramesh from his temporary house in Pandeshwar.
Police said that the arrested confessed to their involvement in thefts in five places including three temples. They had stolen a gold chain from Koragajjana Gudi in Nantoorpadav, silver jewellery from another Koragajjana Gudi located at Mary Hill area and cash and silver jewellery from Mahamayi temple in Mulki. They also had decamped with gold jewelleary and other valuables from a house in Mulki besides stealing the parked motorbike of Kiran Kumar, said the release.
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