Palghar: Three arrested for thefts worth over Rs 3 lakh

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Police have arrested three persons for stealing valuables and other items worth more than Rs 3 lakh from a house and a company in Maharashtra's Palghar district, officials said on Thursday, reported PTI.

Some persons broke into a house in Naleshwar Nagar at Virar Phata on July 23 night and allegedly stole jewellery worth Rs 1.27 lakh, senior police inspector Pramod Badakh told news agency PTI.

The crime branch officials worked on several leads, including the CCTV footage and technical and intelligence inputs.

They arrested two persons, aged 26 and 32, on Tuesday and recovered booty worth Rs 1.10 lakh from them, the official said. It has come to light that more than 10 cases of house-breaking thefts and auto-rickshaw thefts have been registered against them in Ratnagiri, Mumbai, Thane and Palghar, the police said.

In another incident, plastic granules worth Rs 2.16 lakh were stolen from the premises of a company here on the intervening night of Monday-Tuesday.

The crime branch carried out a probe and arrested a 35-year-old person on Tuesday. The entire booty and a vehicle used in the crime were recovered from the accused, the official told news agency PTI.

Earlier on July 24, five persons were arrested in Palghar for alleged involvement in thefts after prying open ATMs. "There were many complaints of damage to the chest cabinet and cash dispenser of ATMs in the region and teams were formed to solve these crimes," Crime Branch Unit II senior inspector Shauraj Ranavare said.

According to the police official, the five were held from Vasai and Nalasopara after checking CCTV footage.

"We zeroed in on a car with a registration plate that did not have all the numbers. It was parked near Achole. We managed to nab five adults and a juvenile from the vehicle. We seized the car and mobile phones, cumulatively valued at Rs 5.05 lakh," the police said.

With the arrest of these five persons (the juvenile has been detained), three such crimes in Valiv and one in Manickpur in the jurisdiction of Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) police have been solved.

(With inputs from PTI)