The Bengaluru Police have arrested a woman for allegedly stealing laptops from multiple PG properties.
Bangalore:
Bengaluru police have arrested a 29-year-old woman from Rajasthan for allegedly stealing laptops from multiple paying guesthouses in the city since 2022.
According to Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda, “The woman, identified as Jassu Agarwal, was arrested with 24 laptops worth Rs 10 lakh.”
Sharing details of the thefts, the police commissioner said, “A laptop, charger and mouse were stolen from a rental house under HAL police station and a case was registered at HAL police station in October last year.”
The official further said that investigation into the matter had been conducted and the accused woman had been arrested and interrogated at length.
Subsequently, the woman, identified as Jassu Agarwal, was arrested with 24 laptops worth Rs 10 lakh. The theft involved 3 laptop cases from 1 HAL station each of Koramangala and Indiranagar.
According to details, the woman from Rajasthan carried out the robberies on paying guests (PG) around software company locations and PG areas of the city such as Tin Factory, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Silkboard Hebbala, Whitefield, Mahadevpur, etc.
During investigation, it was revealed that the stolen laptops were sold by the suspect to laptop shops in Marathahalli, Yalahanka and Hebbal, the official said.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Whitefield Division, Sivakumar, under the guidance of HAL Police Inspector and others, managed to solve the case against the accused.
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