Two arrested in Bengaluru for stealing Titan watches worth Rs 57 lakh
A complaint regarding the theft was filed by Hanumegowda, the warehouse manager for Jaideep Enterprises located at the Javaregowdanagar in west Bengaluru.
The arrested accused claimed that they followed and stopped the truck after it knocked down one of their vehicles. (File Representational Photo) The Bengaluru west division police have arrested two persons in connection with the robbery of 1,282 Titan company watches, valued at Rs 57 lakh, on January 15 in Rajarajeshwari Nagar.
The accused, Zameer Ahmed alias Zameer, 28, and Syed Shahid alias Shahid, 26, were allegedly part of a group of five to six youths that stopped a tempo and attacked its two cleaners, before decamping with 23 boxes of watches.
A complaint regarding the theft was filed by Hanumegowda, the warehouse manager for Jaideep Enterprises located at the Javaregowdanagar in west Bengaluru. According to the complaint a consignment of 1,282 watches was received at the warehouse from a Flipkart warehouse in Kolar on the afternoon of January 15. And the truck’s two cleaners left with the consignment at around 10 pm to buy cigarettes. While they were returning back to the warehouse, the duo was allegedly waylaid by a gang near the Maharaja Bar in the Kenchanahalli area.
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