Two inter-state offenders held, Rs 25 lakh booty recovered

PNS|Vijayawada

The NTR Vijayawada police nabbed two interstate offenders and seized 672 grams of gold, and 11.842 kg of silver ornaments – all worth Rs 25 lakh – from their possession on Thursday. The accused were identified as Vantharam Siva Kishore (54) of Rajam of Vizianagaram district and Balivada Ramesh (48) belonging to Gopalapatnam of Visakhapatnam.

Both the accused are relatives and Vantharam Siva is a habitual offender. He committed theft and went to jail. After being released from jail, he came to Vijayawada from Visakhapatnam and identified a locked house for robbery at the Gopalreddy Road area in the limits of Governorpet Police station and entered the house after breaking the door locks and stealing gold and silver ornaments from the almirah on January 13.

Later, he went to Visakhapatnam along with the stolen items and approached Balivada Ramesh along with whom he went to Rajamahendravaram to sell the ornaments, but their efforts were futile.

Then, they both came to Vijayawada to sell the ornaments. The police nabbed the du while trying to sell the stolen ornaments in Old Sivalayam Street on Wednesday.

During the interrogation, they confessed to the robbery, said Vijayawada Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police for Crimes (ADCP) P Venkata Ratnam.

He disclosed to the media persons the details of the offenders and said that on January 13, the Governorpet police received a complaint from a man that his valuable ornaments were stolen when they went to Shirdi. After returning to Vijayawada they found that their house was burgled and lodged a complaint on January 14. Following the directions of NTR Vijayawada Police Commissioner Kanti Rana Tata, special teams were arranged to nab the accused, he added.

Commissioner of Police Kanthi Rana Tata congratulated all the investigation officers ADCP (Crime) P Venkata Ratnam, CCS ACP Chalasani Srinivasa Rao, South ACP Dr B RaviKirana, CCS CI P Krishna, Venkateswarlu and Governorpet CI D Suresh.