PUNE: The city police’s crime branch has detected 12 cases related to burglary and vehicle theft and recovered stolen property, collectively valued at Rs13lakh, following the arrest of criminal on record Pillu Singh Kalu Singh Juni, wanted in MCOCA and six other cases, on September 14.
Senior inspector Hemant Patil from the crime branch (unit V) on Friday said, “We had launched a hunt to arrest Juni, one of the suspects involved in attacking two men, including a policeman, with sharp weapons after committing dacoity in two flats at Panchratna society in Kothrud on July 15, but his whereabouts were not known.”
Patil said, “Juni was taken into custody when he came to meet his family members on Phursungi Road. He admitted to have committed a string of property offences at Hadapsar, Kondhwa, Sahakarnagar, Market Yard, Swargate and Saswad areas in 2021.”
Juni was on the run after his two accomplices were nabbed by the Kothrud police in the dacoity case. The police have invoked provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against Juni and his accomplices after investigations revealed that they were members of an organised crime syndicate.
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