Karnataka engineering student steals gold-plated ornaments worth over Rs5L from Pune store, held
The Vishrambaug police on Thursday said the student from Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), about 90km from Bengaluru, stole the gold-plated jewellery worth Rs5 lakh from the Sadashiv Peth store on July 7. A police team, led by senior inspector Santosh Pandhare and inspector Arun Ghodke, arrested him on Tuesday from his village and recovered the jewellery from his grandparents' house.
Pandhare said investigation revealed that the student wanted to make some quick money and came to Pune on July 4 in search of a jewellery store.
"He conducted a recce of several shops in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, before zeroing in on the store in Sadashiv Peth," he said.
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Inspector Ghodke said: "During investigation, we got to know that he was a bright student. CCTV footage showed that he visited several jewellery stores after reaching Pune. On the night of July 7, he entered the jewellery store in Sadashiv Peth by climbing the building and breaking open a washroom window.
Once inside, he stole the ornaments."
He said: "After the store owner approached us with the complaint, we studied CCTV footage of the area. We found that the boy walked towards Dandekar bridge, from where he hired a cab. We tracked down the cab that had dropped him in the Navale Bridge area. We got to know that he paid the cab fare through an UPI application. The transaction revealed his identity as we found his phone number."
The police said the student subsequently returned to KGF and began looking for prospective buyers of the stolen jewellery. "He was brought to Pune on Wednesday and produced before a city court that remanded him in police custody till July 19," Ghodke said.
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