Mangalore: Man Accused of Stealing Valuables of Crash Victims Arrested
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Jun 2: One of the accused, who allegedly relieved the air crash victims of their valuables by posing as a volunteer in relief operations, was arrested by a police team led by the district crime intelligence bureau inspector, Venkatesh Prasanna, on Monday May 31. The arrested has been identified as Sattar (23), a resident of Haleneeru House near Kuppepadav School.
Gold ornaments hidden by the accused in the pen of his home where poultry birds are kept, have been recovered by the policemen. Reportedly, Sattar, residing near Maravoor mosque and working as a city bus driver on Bajpe route, in the company of Irshad alias Baddumunde, an auto rickshaw driver from Jokatte, clandestinely pocketted the jewellery items, while posing as if he was trying to help move dead bodies out of the crash site on Saturday May 22.
When Sattar was moving in a car for selling some of the ornaments so stolen, based on a tip off, a police team arrested him. Besides arresting the accused, they recovered about 130 grams of gold ornaments he was taking with him. Based on the information they extracted from him, the policemen visited his home and recovered 127 grams of gold ornaments, which had been hidden in the pen.
The policemen have put the value of gold ornaments so recovered, at Rs 6.37 lac. Sattar has been handed over to Bajpe police station for further investigation, and he was produced in a court here. In the meantime, Altaf and Irshad, the two accomplices who reportedly helped Altaf in is ulterior motives, are absconding.
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