Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Aug 8: The police have succeeded in busting a case of theft which occurred at the house of Tirumalaraja Bhat from Padil-Alape in the city on April 18 this year. The theft-accused, identified as Khader Hussain alias Khader alias Suresh Kamaraj (49), a native of Kamarajanagar, Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu, stands arrested. The things stolen were also recovered from his possession.

On being produced in the court, Kamaraj was remanded to judicial custody.

On April 18, the front door of Tirumalaraja Bhat had been broken, and the door of the alimirah inside the house was forced open, and ornaments weighing two and half sovereigns had been stolen. Rural police had registered a case and utilized services of the canine squad and fingerprint experts.

The staff who compared the fingerprints got suspicious about involvement of a person whose details were available in police records. Experts found that these fingerprints matched with those of a thief who had been involved with several thefts at Bantwal, Puttur, port and Pandeshwar police station limits about two decades ago. The accused had been sentenced in these cases and released upon completion of jail term. A special team then got into the act and arrested Khader alias Suresh Kamaraj. He was taken into custody from near Nehru Maidan here, and thereafter recovered the items stolen by him from Bhat's house.

The police said that during interrogation, the accused also confessed to have broken open doors of two houses in Neetravati Extension near Pumpwell in the city and having tried to steal things from there. They added that the accused, who came from Tamil Nadu to Dakshina Kannada district about 40 years ago.

Rural station police inspector, Pramod Kumar, crime police sub-inspector, Venkatesh, and other employees were involved with the investigation of this case and arrest of the accused.