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Theft and Robbery, migrant thieves held 

Thiruvananthapuram, 18^th March 2010 :  A Police Team led by City Police Commissioner Sri: M.R. Ajithkumar IPS has arrested a gang of migrant thieves suspected to be responsible for the theft of bags from passengers who were staying inside the parked Cars at Statue junction and Thampanoor during this month.  In the incident at Thampanoor, an woman has lost her gold ornaments weighing 40 sovereigns,  Rs.12,000 in cash and a mobile phone handset.  The accused are professional thieves hailing from Ramji Nagar in Trichy District.  The gang scatters currency notes on the road near the parked vehicles and applies tricks to invite the passenger’s attention to it.  The gang acts at the very same moment when the person inside the vehicle steps out and turns to the money thinking that it is possibly belonging to him.  

At this gap, the thieves decamp from the spot with whatever they get from inside the vehicle.   The suspects had used the same technique for robbing car passengers in Kochi also by diverting the attention as above.
    
To nab the elusive gangsters, the City Police Commissioner launched an undercover operation. 

The Investigating Officers learnt that the suspects were using a stolen mobile phone set after replacing its SIM card.  As instructed by the Commissioner of Police, the Cyber Cell tracked the mobile phone using its unique International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number. Subsequently a team was sent to Chennai and pinned the gang.  

On March 18, the city police learned that the above gang was in Chottanikkara and Kochi Police was alerted.  In the next day morning, the police received a distress call from the Ayurveda college junction. The Caller informed that some strangers had approached his wife, who was sitting inside her car, and the strangers told her that some currency notes were fallen out of the vehicle. On getting the message, the police cordoned of the area and arrested two of the suspects. 

When interrogated the arrested persons, it is  learned that the gang numbered seven. The Investigators collected the mobile phone numbers of the other suspects and located them with the help of Cyber Cell.  The third person was arrested from Marthandam in Tamil Nadu on Friday evening. The police recovered Rs.35,000, a lap top computer, expensive binoculars and a digital music player that were robbed by the above gang from a tourist in front of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple at East Fort.   In January, a retired judge had been robbed off his bag at Thampanoor in a similar manner.   Search is on to arrest the remaining members of the gang.