12 held in separate cases, stolen booty of Rs 67 lakh seized

As many as 95 cases of offences like theft, chain snatching and others were detected and nearly 12 people arrested in this regard during the last one week by Thane Crime Branch, police said today.
Besides, goods and stolen items, including gold jewellery, motorbikes, elephant tusks worth about Rs 67 lakh were seized during the massive operation carried out by the Crime Branch.
The arrested persons were from places like Goa, Karnataka, Raigadh, Thane and Pune, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Parag Manere told reporters here today.
Last week, three persons identified as - Sandesh Maladkar (31), Babu Shettiar (28), and Vinod Bankari (26) - were held from separate places of Panvel, Kalwa, Shahpur. Stolen booty including 51 motorcycles worth nearly Rs 20 lakh was recovered from them, the senior official said.

In the second major detection, police arrested four persons in connection with as many as 19 chain snatching cases from Rabodi, Kasarwadavali, Shil Diaghar, Vartak Nagar and Naupada localities.
Stolen chains weighing 288 gms worth Rs 5.56 lakhs was seized from them. The arrested were Javed Jaffri, Jitendra Kothari, Abujahar Bagar Lai Hussain, Haider Irani.

In a separate operation, Gairesh Kerkar from Wangani was held from Thane. He was involved in 22 cases of chain snatching and gold worth 275 gms valuing Rs 6.10 lakh was seized from him.
Police also arrested one Hujju Jaffari (21) from Madgaon in Goa with the help of Goa police. Gold chain of 190 gms worth Rs 3.52 lakh was recovered. He was involved in as many as 11 cases of chain snatching.

In Kawla, two persons were held last week with rare, sand boa snake weighing 740 gms and 39 inches, valuing around Rs 30 lakh.
They were identified as Vikas Vaikar (29) and Umesh Adimuni (20), Manere said.
One Birjesh Singh from Thane was also nabbed with elephant tusk valuing at around Rs 2 lakh, police added.