Mechanical engineer from Andhra arrested in Bengaluru for series of house break-ins and theft
The accused Srinivas, a resident of Andhra Pradesh, worked as technical crew in the Andhra cinema industry and was arrested for allegedly stealing a laptop to arrange money for his online gaming addiction in 2008.
After he came out on bail, he became a full-time burglar and used to move around places to identify locked houses and allegedly steal valuables after breaking into the houses. The accused had allegedly burgled two houses on a single day and returned to his hometown to dispose off the stolen valuables. Based on CCTV camera footage, the Kodigehalli police enlarged the image to match it with Srinivas' records available in crime database.
With his arrest, the police said they solved two house break-in thefts in Kodigehalli and recovered ₹9 lakh worth of valuables from him.
'The accused had a decent background, and his siblings are engineers working in the U.S. and Australia as techies,' the police said. However, addiction to gaming and a lavish life made him take the wrong way, a police officer said.
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