Mangaluru, Dec 5: As many as seven persons have been arrested in connection with the robbery at Abhiman Texas, a residential apartment in Bendoor, Mangaluru.
The arrested have been identified as Rakesh Bonifas D’Souza (37) from Shivabagh Kadri, Ashok Pandhrekar (36) and Ganesh Bapu Parab (37) from Goa, Janardhan Acharya (41) from Kotekar, Chandan Acharya (44) from Mangaladevi , Purushotham Acharya (46) from Kotekar Beeri and Shaheer Mohamed (37) from the same Abhiman Texas apartment where the incident took place three months ago.
According to the police, the accused had entered the flat number 604 of the apartment through the ventilator duct between September 8 and 13. With the help of a lever they broke open the locker in the master bedroom and decamped with gold and diamond worth Rs 35 lakh and Rs 65,000 cash.
A case was registered in the regard at the Mangaluru East police station under section 454, 457 and 380 IPC. A special team formed to probe the case, managed to nab the accused seized the gold ornaments, an Alto car, a Hyundai car, a Bullet motorcycle and the equipment used to melt the gold from their possession.
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