Hyderabad: The sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, South Zone Team, Hyderabad along with Saidabad Police arrested one habitual house burglar Mantri Shankkar and recovered gold ornaments wg. About 370 grams and net cash Rs.3,20,000/- and Bajaj Avenger vehicle all worth about 15 lakhs and tools used for breaking locks and doors at the instance of accused person.
The accused Mantri Shankar, who is born and brought up in Chilkalaguda area of Hyderabad city, is a notorious/habitual house burglar. Involved in more than 250 cases of house burglaries, he was the most wanted offender during the recent period in the Commissionerates of Hyderabad and Rachakonda. Released during the last week of October, 2017, he went on a spree of committing house burglaries during nights along with his associate Obaid, a Rowdy Sheeter of Kalapather Police Station and committed eleven house burglaries by night in Hyderabad and Rachakonda Commissionerates along with his associate Obaid and also made attempts to commit offences in several houses. Obaid dropped him on Motorcycle in the locality selected and kept watch of the surroundings, while Shankar completed the task of committing theft.
The accused is a master in lock breakings; it takes only 3 seconds for him to break the locks of the houses. When he was 20 years old, he was first arrested in a theft case on 12.12.1979. After his release he was again arrested when he disposed stolen property. Generally he commits offences in between 1 A.M to 4 A.M. Once he enters any locality for commission of offence, to avoid police he moves from one house to other house in the locality by crossing over the compound walls of the houses and checks for locked houses. If he does not find locked houses in a lane (row of houses), he crosses the road and moves to other lane in the locality. During this cross over, he takes precaution from being exposed/noticed and takes the cover of darkness and trees. After commission of offence, he waits over the terrace of the buildings till the morning walkers come out and move out of the locality under their cover, Police said.
The accused Shankar changes his attire according to the locality he selects for committing offences. Earlier he committed offences by moving in a car and kept his attire matched to that of any other professional by wearing tie and shoes. With the stolen property, he leads lavish life with his girl friend’s and buys branded clothes and leads luxurious life. The arrested accused person was sent to judicial custody, Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City said
