Visakhapatnam police arrest 71 property offenders, recover ₹45 lakh worth stolen property in September, says Police Commissioner
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Visakhapatnam police arrest 71 property offenders, recover ₹45 lakh worth stolen property in September; improve crime prevention measures.
The city police have arrested as many as 71 property offenders who were involved in 77 cases and recovered about ₹45 lakh worth stolen property in September.
Addressing a press conference on ‘Monthly Recovery Mela’ at the police conference hall here on Sunday, Police Commissioner Shankabratha Bagchi said that during September 105 cases of property offences were reported in the city under various heads. Special teams had detected 77 of them, he said.
Out of the detected cases, one case pertains to robbery, four cases to house-breaks in by day, 13 cases to HBs by Night, nine cases involve snatching, one case related to auto-rickshaw theft, 23 cases are motorcycle thefts and remaining 26 cases are other thefts, Mr. Shankabratha Bagchi said.
Among the recoveries include 1,204.06 grams (1.2 Kgs) of gold, 943.43 grams of silver and ₹1.54 lakh cash, he added.
Apart from the above property, 272 stolen mobile phones worth ₹40,80,000 were also recovered. With this, the total property recovered is worth about ₹86.24 lakh, he said.
Mr. Shankabratha Bagchi appreciated the performance of the crime wing stating that last month, the teams have recovered property worth around ₹66 lakh, while this month it has improved.
He also said that earlier the police used to wait for court’s order to distribute the recovered property, but now they are informing the court and distributing it to the victims.
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