Graphic designer held for theft of Rs 6.8 lakh valuables from house in Thane
Thane (PTI): Police have arrested a 26-year-old graphic designer for allegedly stealing jewellery and cash valued at Rs 6.8 lakh from a house in Maharashtra's Thane district, an official said on Monday.
The incident occurred on the intervening night of June 24 and 25 at a house located in Mira Road area.
A woman residing in the house was awakened by the sound of a cat that had entered her house. Upon checking, she found her bedroom cupboard was ransacked and a bag containing 77 gm of gold jewellery and Rs 9,000 in cash was missing, Mira Road's senior police inspector Meghana Burande said.
Based on a complaint by the 58-year-old house woman, an FIR was registered on June 25 under sections 305(a) (theft in a dwelling house) and 331 (house-trespass) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
A detection team from the Mira Road police station promptly launched an investigation.
"Based on intelligence and sustained efforts, we arrested the accused within 24 hours," the official said.
The accused has been identified as a graphic designer, originally from Nepal, residing in the same neighbourhood, according to the police.
"During interrogation, we recovered 69 grams of the stolen jewellery valued at Rs 5.52 lakh from him. We are now working to recover the remaining stolen property," Burande said.
It also came to light during the probe that the accused has a criminal background, as two FIRs were earlier registered against him at the Mira Road police station, the official said.
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3 DRG personnel killed, 1 injured as IED goes off during demining operation in Chhattisgarh
Kanker (PTI): Three personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), including an inspector, were killed and another jawan was injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off while they were trying to neutralise it in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, police said.
This was the first blast incident linked to Naxalite activity in the state since the country was declared free from armed Maoists on March 31.
The explosion occurred in a forest area under Chhotebethiya police station limits, near the Narayanpur district border, when a DRG team was conducting a demining operation to locate and defuse IEDs planted earlier by Naxalites, a police official said.
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During the operation, the security personnel detected an IED. However, the explosive went off while they were in the process of defusing it, seriously injuring four personnel, he said.
Inspector Sukhram Vatti, constable Krishna Komra and constable Sanjay Gadhpale succumbed to their injuries on the spot, the official said.
Another injured constable, Parmanand Komra, is undergoing treatment and receiving necessary medical care, he said.
Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range, Sundarraj Pattilingam said, based on inputs from surrendered Maoist cadres and other intelligence over the past few months, security forces had recovered and neutralised hundreds of IEDs planted earlier by Naxalites across the Bastar range, comprising seven districts, including Kanker.
"However, in today's unfortunate incident, the IED accidentally exploded while the Kanker district police team was trying to defuse it, resulting in the death of three personnel and serious injuries to one," he said.
