Five Held For Gold Heist, Snatching In Hyderabad

In a swift joint operation, the Secunderabad Task Force and the Lalaguda police arrested three members of a robbery gang involved in a house robbery at Arihant Sadan Apartments in East Marredpally.

The accused allegedly confined and assaulted a woman before robbing gold ornaments weighing about nine tolas.

The police recovered 28.8 grams of gold and two mobile phones, worth approximately Rs 4.5 lakh.

Investigations revealed that the prime accused, Gurrappagari Mahesh, a former watchman of the apartment, used his familiarity with the premises to plan the crime. The trio, including Chinnakotla Pavan Kumar (A2) and Geeju Surendra (A3), were today arrested near the Secunderabad railway station and remanded to judicial custody.

In a related incident, the Chaitanyapuri police busted a notorious interstate chain-snatching gang by arresting two habitual offenders involved in multiple gold snatching cases across the L B Nagar Zone.

The arrests were made in Delhi following a swift, tech-driven operation.

The accused - Akshay Kumar Sharma (29) and Rohit (26) - snatched gold chains from women on January 17 within the limits of Hayathnagar, Nagole and Chaitanyapuri police stations after arriving on a stolen Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle. After committing the crimes, they abandoned the vehicle near the Sangeet theatre crossroads in Secunderabad and fled to Delhi.

Special police teams analysed CCTV footage, tower dump data, call records and technical surveillance to trace the suspects. Acting on precise inputs, a Chaitanyapuri police team arrested both the accused in Delhi and recovered the stolen property.

The police seized three gold chains weighing a total of 55.2 grams and two mobile phones.

Investigations revealed that the duo were habitual offenders, with several theft and chain-snatching cases registered against them in Delhi and Nagpur. After being released from jail in July 2025, the accused allegedly resumed criminal activity and committed seven chain-snatching offences within the Hyderabad and Malkajgiri limits. The arrests led to the detection of nine pending cases across multiple police stations.