The Pune metropolis police have arrested a burglar allegedly concerned in 64 home break-ins and recovered a sack with gold and silver ornaments price 17 lakh and gear used for the thefts.
The police mentioned the accused Harshad Gulab Pawar, 31, a resident of Gulab Nagar in Mulshi taluka of Pune district, modified garments after each home break-in and travelled as much as 50 kilometres by way of slender lanes, making it troublesome for the police to trace him from CCTV footage.
“To this point, we’ve got recovered 236.53 grams of gold jewelry, 212 grams of silver ornaments, and different valuables from the accused. Additional investigation is on. It’s being probed whether or not he dedicated extra thefts and there’s a risk that extra gold could be seized from him,” Sandip Singh Gill, Deputy Commissioner of Police (zone 1), instructed reporters on Thursday.
Gill mentioned the police have confirmed his involvement in 13 new theft circumstances.
Aside from the ornaments, the police additionally seized 49 keys, suspected for use in thefts, from Pawar, mentioned senior police inspector Chandrashekhar Sawant.
A faculty dropout, Pawar has been on police crime data since 2008. The police mentioned that each time he was launched on bail, Pawar continued to commit thefts beneath Pune metropolis and Pimpri Chinchwad police jurisdictions.
“Additionally, on seeing a CCTV digital camera, he used to stroll by way of the world by holding his cellular phone to his ears, pretending to be chatting with somebody in order that the investigators probing the CCTV footage wouldn’t get suspicious of him,” mentioned an officer.
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Pawar was arrested just a few years in the past for committing 51 crimes, primarily home break-in thefts, however was launched on bail in November 2023, the police mentioned.
Investigators mentioned Pawar did a recce of the homes he selected to commit thefts. Then, he burgled the spots through the daytime.
“The accused was promoting the stolen gold and silver jewelry with the assistance of his aide Nilkanth Raut, who’s but to be arrested,” mentioned sub-inspector Ajit Bade.
The police acquired inputs about Pawar following the arrest of an accused, Shubham Giri, at Shivajinagar railway station earlier this week in reference to a theft case, the assertion mentioned.
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A staff led by Bade of Shivajinagar police station arrested Pawar from the Mhasoba gate bus cease on February 4.
