Berhampur Police Arrested Six Members Snatching Gang
Odishabarta
Berhampur: The Berhampur Police has arrested six-member habitual snatcher gang from a shopping mall which was allegedly involved in several cases of loot and snatching .
One Mangul Kumar Behera, Branch Manager of V-Mart shopping mall ,Berhampur reported that ,on 19.09.2023 about 04.00 PM from V-Mart Shopping Mall, a mobile and a money purse with cash of Rs. 9,300 of a lady customer was stolen which was reported at Town Police station and police registered a case U/s – 380/34 IPC.Basing on the strength of the report police started the enquiry in action of the case .
According to a senior Police officer, during investigation by the Police team it was found that accused persons, (1)Akash P. Shiva(22), (2)Sarath MS, (3) Jithin MM(22), (4) Mahesh(21) all belonging to Kerala entered into the shopping mall and stole the articles reported stolen and other two persons namely (5)Ajith.P(27), (6)Hariharan P(28) both from Kerala were keeping a watch from outside.
It may underline that, the accused persons belongs to Kerala and had come to Berhampur and were staying at a private Lodge in Berhampur since 16.09.2023.
Further investigation going on to verify the character antecedents of the accused persons, he added.
Police have successfully recovered all the stolen articles and all six accused persons were arrested and forwarded to the court.
Off the report it came to our notice from a reliable source that, they also roamed around and snatched costly mobile phones from commuters on road. They shared the looted and sold the snatched mobile phones to different customers.
