Cops in dark about sandalwood thieves

Nagpur: Sadar police seem to be groping in the dark for the sandalwood thieves who had sneaked away with a tree from the official premises of zonal DCP Noorul Hasan’s bungalow in Sadar, earlier this week.
Cops feel the gang behind the latest theft had earlier come under their radar for similar offences. It’s learnt that the prime suspects in the latest sandalwood tree theft were among the ones nabbed last year by Sadar police for a spate of such cases in the city, including one at the official quarter of the DIG, Naxal range, near Seminary Hills.
Sources from Sadar police station said cops have come to know about the involvement of a few suspects who had sneaked into the city on the night during which the theft had taken place. Despite laying traps for the suspects, the cops have so far not been able to nab any of them.
The cops are trying to nab the gang and prevent it from striking again in the ongoing monsoon season, when such thefts of sandalwood become common.