Team Herald
MARGAO: Colva Police solved the jewellery store break-in reported on March 6, 2019 following the arrest of 21-year-old Frankenstien Dias and his mother Leena Dias aged 43 years whose arrest was aided by the CCTV footage.
On March 6, Parvesh Bakaro, the owner of a Kashmiri Jewelry Store at Colva, had complained that somebody had broken into his shop and stolen goods worth around Rs 2 lakh. However, subsequently he said goods worth around Rs 12 lakh were stolen.
Police began their investigations and zeroed down on the Dias mother-son duo based on the CCTV camera footage and began monitoring their movements. They were arrested at Birla and police recovered gold and silver ornaments worth around Rs 10 lakhs from them. Besides, various instruments used for breaking into house like sickles were also found in their possession.
According to Colva Police Inspector the two have confessed to having committed a burglary by breaking into an alcohol shop in Mapusa last December which, he said, police are investigating.
Incidentally, Leena Dias and her husband Carlos Dias were arrested four years ago in a similar case. Though the case is still under trial, both the accused have been abstaining from the court hearings.
