Three interstate thieves held by Kalaburagi police; jewelry, cash worth Rs 3 crore seized
Kalaburagi: The city police have arrested three interstate thieves, who were allegedly involved in robbery of jewelry worth approximately Rs 3 crore from a jewelry store in Saraf Bazaar area, City Police Commissioner Dr. Sharanappa SD has said.
The senior officer told reporters at his office that the investigation team has also seized 2.865 kg gold and cash worth Rs 4.8 lakh from the arrested men.
The arrested men are identified as Ayodhya Prasad Chauhan (48), a resident of an area within the jurisdiction limits of Gopal Nagar Police Station in West Bengal, Farooq Ahmed Malik (40), a jeweler living within the jurisdiction limits of Dadpur Police Station in West Bengal, and Sohail Sheikh also called Badshah (30), who is a tailor from Mumbai, the Commissioner has said.
Malik had allegedly stolen jewelry worth approximately Rs 3 crore from a store in the city on July 11. The five police teams formed to investigate the incident held operations in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana successfully probed the case and found Malik, Dr. Sharanappa has said, adding that the police also arrested two other suspects in earlier robbery cases and seized the gold and cash the duo had stolen.
The investigation team included Chowk Police Inspector Raghavendra, Brahmapura Inspector Somalinga, police personnel Shivananda Walikar and Bande Nawaz, the senior officer said.
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MI beat PBKS by 6 wickets
Dharamsala (PTI): Already out of play-offs race, Mumbai Indians beat Punjab Kings by six wickets in their IPL match here on Thursday.
Tilak Varma remained not out on 75 off 33 balls as MI chased down the target of 201 with one ball to spare. Will Jacks gave Varma company with 25 not out off 10 balls as MI reached 205 for 4 in 19.5 overs.
For Punjab, Azmatullah Omarzai was the most successful bowler with figures of 2/36.
Earlier, Shardul Thakur returned with excellent figures of 4 for 39 for MI, who are already out of the IPL play-offs race, but Punjab Kings still scored 200 for 8.
Deepak Chahar (2/36), Corbin Bosch (1/42) and Raj Bawa (1/11) were the other MI wicket takers.
Brief Scores:
Punjab Kings: 200 for 8 in 20 overs (Prabhsimran Singh 57; Shardul Thakur 4/39).
Mumbai Indians: 205 for 4 in 19.5 overs (Tilak Varma 75 not out; Azmatullah Omarzai 2/36).
