Stephan Kayyar
Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (EP/SP)

Kasargod, Dec 2: Police led by deputy superintendent of police, T P Ranjith, have succeeded in arresting a person who allegedly committed thefts from various places including temples, and a contractor who was hand in glove with the above person in thefts.

The arrested persons have been identified as Asgar Ali (23), residing in the quarters at Cherkala Padi in Nellikatte, and Javid (26) from Cherkala.

A Maruti Omni van, an auto rickshaw, and some other assets were confiscated from their possession.

The police are on the lookout for Mohammed Ali (27), another member of this gang of thieves. It i said that Ali has been undergoing sentence in Karnataka after being arrested by Puttur police. The police believe that with these arrests, they have busted theft cases in several temples, bank, and business concerns.

Asgar had recently been released after being in jail for three years relating to an earlier case. The trio allegedly used to steal things from houses during the day and from shops and temples at night. The vehicles now taken over by the police were said to be put to use for these thefts. The police have also taken into possession a home theatre system from the arrested persons. The police now are concentrating on the possibility of the involvement of other people in these thefts.

Police say that thee persons were involved with theft of donation box from a temple in Yedaneeru, money deposited in donation box of the same temple by the roadside, theft from Baladka women's cooperative bank, a poultry farm in Mulleriya, donation box of a church in Badiyadka, theft from a shop in Cherkala, and several other thefts totally running into lacs of rupees.