Thief caught, gold & silver seized

WARANGAL: Central Crime Station police

arrested

a

burglar

on Saturday and seized 134 grams of

gold

and 250 grams of

silver

ornaments from his possession.

East Zone DCP K R Nagaraju said the accused, M Sambaiah of Amangal village of

Mahabubabad district

, was caught near

Wardhannapet

Ambedkar Centre while trying to board a bus to Warangal where he planned to sell the ornaments.

During the interrogation he confessed to have stolen the ornaments. Sambaiah, a daily labour, migrated to Hanuman Nagar in ECIL a few years back. Police said he moved around looking for locked houses and broke in at night. He was arrested in 2003 and sent to jail for theft at Karimnagar, Khammam and Rangareddy. He continued to steal after being released from jail. Police identified the accused using CCTV footage.