Kingpin of gang who robbed posh homes arrested from Uttar Pradesh

The Kandivli police have arrested a 35yearold man for allegedly heading a gang of thieves who would work as domestic help in houses and later rob themThe accused identified as Jawahar Pandey a resident of Uttar Pradesh was caught from Gonda after the police traced him through his call data records on March 14Accused PandeyThe gang has robbed various houses of wellknown politicians officers and builders in several states including Haryana and PunjabAccording to the police sources Pandey who is the kingpin of the gang has confessed to the crimeThe complaintKandivli police said Gaurav Ketan Shah 30 had filed a complaint against his domestic help Ramkumar Amarnath and accused him of robbing jewellery from his house when his mother was home alone Amarnath had joined work on January 1 he claimedThe police have recovered jewellery worth R13 lakh out of the R17 lakh worth diamond gold and silver jewellery robbed from a businessmanrsquos house in Kandivli on January 23ldquoWe have arrested Pandey and recovered jewellery worth R13 lakh from him We are now trying to trace the locations of all his gang members and arrest themrdquo said ACP Shailendra DhivarThe probeDuring the investigation the Kandivli police found that the identity documents submitted by Amarnath were fake and other people were involved in the crimeOn scanning through his call data records police found that Amarnath had spoken frequently to a number in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh A special team was formed under the supervision of senior inspector Dinkar Jadhav inspector Atul Mohite and subinspector Suryakant Pawar The team went to Gonda and after 35 days of investigation they traced and nabbed Pandey using the technical call data record of the absconding accused whom Amarnath had calledldquoWith the help of the local police we have arrested Pandey and found out that he was the main accused involved in the house breaks We have recovered the stolen jewellery as Pandey mortgaged them to a local jewellerrdquo said ACP Shailendra DhivarMore theftsFurther probe revealed that Pandey had committed similar crimes and was caught by the Model Town City police in Ludhiana district and Airport police in Amritsar district in 2016 and 2018 respectively which included the burglary in the house of an officer on special duty OSD of Haryanarsquos Chief Minister Manohar Lal KhattarPandey also said that they have been committing robberies since 2010 across the country including Chandigarh Haryana Amritsar and various parts of Uttar Pradesh said an officerDuring interrogation he told the police that he planned to commit burglary in the houses of celebrities and politicians in Mumbai the officer added