A gang of inter-district thieves, who are used to luxury and committing serial thefts, has been arrested.

RSD- Peddapalli news: A person named Ramatanki Sarayya@Venkatesh from Ramaraupalli village of Palakurthi mandal of Peddapelli district was addicted to luxuries and spent the past 10 years doing thefts and serving jail sentence. Also from 2012 to 2016 many thefts in Basanta Nagar, Konaraopet, Tangallapally Chigurumamidi, Choppadandi, Ramadugu, Manakondur were done. In the year 2017, he was sent to jail under the PD Act. In the year 2019 he came out of jail and went to Jammu and Kashmir and then came to Karimnagar and was arrested for stealing chickens from a chicken farm and was arrested and put in a PD act and made to stay in jail for ten months and he came out of jail in the year 2022. Later, he was working in a rented room in Jagityala district making helmets, glasses and rexin, but his earnings were not enough for his luxuries, so he went to his villager Bhutam Ramulu and decided to do luxurious spending with the stolen money. As per their decision, on 27-09-2023, they went to Metpally by bus together and while looking for an opportunity to steal something there, a motorcycle was seen in Metpally village and the said motorcycle was stolen and taken to the room where they were staying. On 28. 08.2023 They took the stolen motorcycle, and came to Sircilla from Kondagattu side and from there to Rajannapet, Ellareddypet Mandal, Kishta. In Naik Tanda, on 14.9.2023 at village Goskulapalli in Chandurthi mandal and on 23.9.2023 at village Malyala and on the same day at village Varshakonda of Ibrahimpatnam mandal Jagityala district. On 05.10. 2023, several thefts were committed in Kannur village of Kamalapur mandal and 8 Incline Colony and Potana Colony of Peddapelli district.

According to the complaint of Hanmandlu of Mudapelli village and Rajayya of Mallyala village, a special team was formed under the direction of CI Kiran Kumar and as part of the investigation, on 16.10.2023 at 06:00 AM on the morning of 16.10.2023, on the reliable information received by CI Kiran Kumar of Chandurthi, the accused were at Nandi Kaman in Vemulawada. On information that they were roaming, Chandurthi SS Ashok’s staff cleverly caught the accused and arrested them.
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Equipment used for theft: iron rod, cutter, screw driver were seized and questioned and the accused confessed to the theft and were sent to remand.

Ramatanki Sarayya @Venkatesh previously had a total of 29 theft cases in Manakondur, NTPC, Lakshettipet, Boyanapally, Ramagundam, Hajipur, Dandepalli, NTPC, Velagatur Ramadugu, Jammikunta, Gollapally, Choppadandi, Jagityala rural areas and served jail time twice under the PD Act.

DSP Nagendrachari, Chandurthi CI Kiran Kumar who showed excellent performance in catching thieves,
Chandurthi SI Sircilla Ashok, Constables Satish Pramod,District SP Akhil Mahajan congratulated.

Appeal to the people.
He said that if suspicious persons are found in villages and towns, the police should inform them, while renting rooms to unknown persons, rooms should be rented only after knowing their full details, and CCTV cameras play a prominent role in crime control. Everyone should install CCTV cameras.

DSP Nagendrachari, CI Kiran Kumar, SI Ashok and staff were present along with SP.