Couple involved in six housebreak thefts arrested

The R.T. Nagar police on Tuesday arrested a couple allegedly involved in six housebreak thefts and recovered 193 grams of gold valuables worth ₹8.5 lakh from them.The accused have been identified as M

The R.T. Nagar police on Tuesday arrested a couple allegedly involved in six housebreak thefts and recovered 193 grams of gold valuables worth ₹8.5 lakh from them.

The accused have been identified as Market Babu, 33 and his wife Jayanthi, 30. While Jayanthi is a homemaker, Babu, a labourer, was also part of a city-based NGO, and the couple was living in a rented house in Kaval Byrasandra.

According to the police, the accused would move around the city on the pretext of enquiring about houses for rent, but their main intention was to identify locked houses. Once the target was fixed, Babu would venture into the house while Jayanthi would watch the movements outside and signal to him in case of danger.