4 theft cases cracked, 9 hardcore thieves held with Rs 5 lakh ornaments in Samba

160 thieves arrested, 80 theft cases solved in 11 months: SSP Samba Benam Tosh

SAMBA, 23 December 2023: District Police have achieved a major success by arresting nine thieves, solving four theft cases and recovering stolen items including Gold and Silver ornaments worth Rs 5 lakhs approximately.

The arrested thieves have been identified as Davinder Singh alias Deepu s/o Ashok Singh r/o Rakh Amb Talli district Samba, Hardeep Singh alias Kalu s/o Gian Singh r/o Samba, Arun Mehta s/o Madan Lal r/o Rattnu Chak district Jammu, Shiv Ram s/o Lal Chand r/o Bilawar district Kathua, Rohit Bhatti s/o Bobby Bhatti r/o Bari Brahmana, ReyazKhan s/o Rasheed Khan r/o Bhagwati Nagar district Jammu, Rahul Kumar s/o Darshan Pal r/o Samba and two others.

Out of nine, four thieves have been arrested by Police team of Police Station Bari Brahmana, four have been arrested by Police team of Police Station Vijaypur, whereas Police Station Samba has arrested one thief.

With the arrests of these hardcore thieves, Police have cracked four theft cases including big jewellery theft case of Vijaypur which is the second jewellery theft case solved by Police within a week.

Senior Superintendent of Police Samba Benam Tosh said that a total of one hundred sixty (160) thieves have been arrested and eighty (80) theft cases have been solved by Samba Police in the past eleven months and stolen property worth lacs of rupees including gold/silver ornaments & cash has been recovered. One notorious thief has also been booked under PSA and police have also initiated the process for booking other hardcore thieves under PSA.