CCTVs help cops bust 2 inter-state gangs

Nagpur: The CCTV cameras installed in the city helped cops arrest eight persons, thereby busting two inter-state gangs of tricksters who had fled after stealing valuables from at least seven cars parked at different places. In the past, city police had not been able to detect most such cases.
In the first case, crime branch team of assistant PI Mayur Chourasiya under DCP Gajanan Rajmane and addl CP Sunil Phulari managed to intercept a gang of seven persons from Tamil Nadu at Mehkar in Buldhana. They were picked up from a travels bus with the help of local police. The gang was brought to Nagpur. Crime branch recovered around cash Rs 4.88 lakh.
Police said the gang had stolen cash and valuables worth more than Rs eight lakh from parked cars by either smashing windows or distracting driver. Two cases were detected after their arrests. The gang had reached Nagpur on August 13 by train.
Crime branch tracked the gang members movement after they were spotted taking an auto-rickshaw to reach Manas Chowk from where they had taken a bus to reach Aurangabad. The cyber cell tracked the gang members with the help of cell phone number provided by them to purchase bus ticket.
In another case, Mankapur police team under API Kailash Magar and senior inspector Vaijayanti Mandodhawre picked up two tricksters from New Mumbai after they were spotted on a bike in various CCTV cameras installed at different locations. Checking their call details also helped.
The two tricksters, Sanjay Das (Roy) and S Palanikumar Subramani, used a stolen bike to drive from Mumbai to Madhya Pradesh and later sneaked into Maharashtra. The two stayed at a lodge in Saoner and smashed windows of cars parked at desolate places.
On August 3 and 4, the two committed a series of thefts in the city, including at Mankapur, Koradi, Sadar and Sitabuldi. They later went to Navi Mumbai via Aurangabad, Nashik and other places.
Police managed to procure their mobile phone number and reached one of their relatives in Mumbai. The clues picked up there helped cope to zero in the tricksters.
City police chief Amitesh Kumar, zonal DCP Vinita S and addl CP Navinchandra Reddy and Phulari are trying to alert cops across various states where these two gangs could have been active.