15 members of Shutter Todwa gang held

Bhopal, June 6 (UNI) Fifteen members of Bihar's Shutter Todwa gang -- which committed thefts in more than 12 cities in the country including New Delhi -- have been arrested in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district.

A state police headquarters spokesperson said Jabalpur police nabbed the accused when they were planning to commit dacoity at a bungalow at Gol Bazar area in the cantonment town.

Most gang members were 20-25 years old. Around 60 kg hemp, laptop, mobile phones and cash worth several crore was seized from them.

The modus operandi of the gang was to commit burglary by breaking the shutters of shops.

The gang had committed more than 50 thefts in New Delhi and over 25 thefts in Jabalpur apart from over 200 thefts across cities like Mumbai, Jammu, Pune, Amritsar, Patiala, Ludhiana, Nasik, Shirdi, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Satna and Katni.

The gang's headquarters is located at Ghodasan town in Champaran along the Bihar Nepal border. The gang keeps recruiting new members and teaches them skills for breaking shutters in order to commit burglary.

The Madhya Pradesh police had sent information to all the states where the accused had confessed to committing the crime.

UNI