Sangareddy: Alert house owner helps police nab burglars in Sadasivapet

In Sangareddy, alert homeowner Bharath Kumar used CCTV footage to alert police and neighbours, helping nab two burglars attempting to loot his house. The accused injured themselves to evade locals, while two accomplices escaped; investigation is ongoing

Sangareddy: An alert house owner helped the police nab burglars who broke into his house with the intention of looting it at Aroor in Sadasivapet mandal in the early hours of Tuesday.

House owner Bharath Kumar and his family had left for Bhadrachalam on Monday to have Vaikunta Dwara Darshanam on the auspicious day.

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While returning to Aroor, they stopped near Patancheru to have tea at a roadside hotel around 2 am on Tuesday. Bharath Kumar casually checked the CCTV cameras on his mobile phone and noticed a few persons rummaging through his house.

He immediately alerted neighbours and asked them to lock the house from outside, suspecting that the thieves were still inside. He then dialled 100, following which the Sadasivapet police rushed to the spot.

In a dramatic turn of events, the two burglars allegedly cut their hands with razor blades, apparently to avoid attacks from locals who gathered at the place in large numbers. The police shifted the accused to a hospital and later produced them before a court.

The accused were identified as Boke Mohan (25), a native of Kamareddy district, and Chekuri Vishnu (19). Two other accomplices of Mohan and Vishnu reportedly fled the scene in an auto. Police said the duo were seasoned burglars and had been involved in multiple such incidents.

Interestingly, Bharath Kumar had installed CCTV cameras 10 months after his house was looted by unidentified thieves. He managed to catch the burglars during their next attempt with the help of the surveillance system. Police said the investigation was on.