Thief arrested after cops match tattoo on his right hand

Chatra: Eagle-eyed policemen in Ithkhori block of Chatra district solved a mystery loot case in a

garment shop

after over a week from a single mistake the burglars made while decamping with cash and valuables.

The

thieves

burgled the shop located in Bhikari complex on October 13 and the police had hardly any clue except for a

CCTV footage

which showed four masked men carrying out the loot. However, officer in-charge Sachin Kumar Das spotted a

tattoo

on the hand of one of the thieves, which helped police arrest all the four.

“The mastermind of the theft, Md Sonu Alam and his three associates were finally arrested and jailed on Friday,” said inspector of Ithkhori police station K P Choudhary.

“A team led by officer in-charge Sachin Kumar Das then started working on the case by scanning the CCTV footage, but had no major clues until Das noticed a tattoo — SSS — on the right hand of one of the thieves,” Choudhary said.

Das then activated his informers which led to the arrest of Alam, a resident of Dhankheri village. After his confession, three others — Subhash Bhuiyan, Mithun Bhuiyan and Murtaza Ali — were held on Friday. Police also matched the tattoo on Alam’s hand. Choudhary said, “We seized the valuables stolen from the shop.”