SALIGAO: Mapusa police on Saturday arrested two persons for stealing 45
metal plates worth Rs 1 lakh which were fixed to a roadside retaining wall belonging to a construction company firm.
According to police complaint lodged by Henrique Cardozo, 57, a resident of Painavaddo, Thivim, on Saturday at around 4.30pm, the accused persons in a goods carrier vehicle stole the plates belonging to the company where the complainant was working as an employee.
During investigtion, police intercepted a goods carrier vehicle along with two men - Rajuel Shaikh, 21, and Bipul Kanti Biswas, 41, both residents of Merces, and recovered the stolen property at Merces.
Police have registered a case under Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) read with Section 34.
Further investigation is under way.