Accused arrested in Bengaluru for two-wheeler theft; 14 vehicles recovered
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Bengaluru: Parappana Agrahara police have arrested a man from another state in connection with a series of two-wheeler thefts from parking areas.
Police have seized 14 stolen two-wheelers, valued at an estimated ₹15 lakh, from the accused.
The investigation began after a resident of Govindashetty Palya filed a complaint on October 22.
He had parked his two-wheeler in front of a hotel in Electronic City, Stage 2, and gone to a relative's house. When he returned at midnight, the vehicle was missing.
Following the complaint, police gathered information and detained a suspicious individual with a two-wheeler near the Huskur fruit market. During interrogation, the man confessed to the theft.
Based on his confession, police recovered a total of 13 additional two-wheelers: seven from an empty plot behind the Huskur fruit market and six from a grove in Rayasandra.
Police officials stated that this arrest has solved eight separate cases, including one from Parappana Agrahara, five from Hebbagodi, and two from Attibele police stations.
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Man sets fire to gas cylinder on truck in Kerala's Kottayam, held
Kottayam(Kerala) (PTI): A 33-year-old man climbed onto a parked truck carrying cooking gas cylinders and set fire to one of them near Thalayolaparambu in the small hours of Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred around 12.30 am, they said.
The fire and rescue personnel soon arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire, averting a major disaster.
According to police, the man is suspected to be under mental distress as he claimed that he was walking from Ernakulam to his home in Marangattupilly here when he saw the truck on the roadside.
An FIR under sections 329(3)(criminal trespass),324(2)(mischief),326(f)(mischief by injury, inundation, fire or explosive substance) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was lodged against him.
Police said that the man was formally arrested, but will be released on station bail as the offences he is accused of are bailable.
"His family is here at the station and he will be released to them," the officer said.
In the FIR, police have said that the man opened the seal of one of the gas cylinders and set fire to it with the knowledge that his act was dangerous to those living in the area.
According to the company transporting the cooking gas cylinders, it suffered a loss of Rs 2,300 in the incident.
