Burglar nabbed by Rajouri city PP, stolen property recovered

Rajouri February 18:–Police in Rajouri city police post has arrested a burglar recovering stolen property from his possession and working out a case of theft.

Police said that a case of theft was registered in Rajouri city police post on 11 February after unidentified burglar decamped with valuables including electronic items.

On this, a team of police headed by Incharge PP Rajouri city, SI Danish Maqbool Dar under the supervision of SHO Rajouri Fareed Ahmed started investigation and rounded up some accused who were put to questioning.

A suspect broke out during questioning and confessed for his involvement in the case who has been arrested in the said case in FIR No 63/22 U/Ss 454/380 IPC.

Accused have been identified as Mohd Arshad son of Faqar Din Bhatti resident of Nagrota Rajouri.

On his disclosure, stolen property has been recovered that include one UPS of computer valuing 5,000 rupees, a computer monitor CPU valuing 30000 rupees,
one DSLR camera of rupees 45,000, a smart watch of rupees 10,000 and a wrist watch of rupees 25,00.

Further investigation and legal proceedings in the case are going on.

SSP Rajouri Mohammad Aslam said that more than one dozen cases of theft have been worked out across the district in past some time and accused have been put behind bars with stolen property valuing several lakh rupees have been recovered.

He further appealed the people in the district to ensure that their valuables are kept safe in households and business establishments and basic preventive measures are taken to prevent thefts.

SSP Rajouri also appealed people to give priority to installation of CCTV cameras on individual as well as community levels so that cases of thefts are worked out at the earliest with the help of technical evidence through these surveillance cameras.