VASCO
Vasco police on Sunday arrested 21-year-old Siddhu Pawar alias Salunke, resident of housing board New Vaddem for stealing water meters from houses.
Vasco PI Kapil Nayak said Pawar was arrested under Sections 426, 379 read with 34 IPC and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984.
"We received a complaint from one lady that on Friday, two people committed theft of the water meter installed outside their house by separating it from the plastic connection pipe using a stone and the incident was captured on their CCTV. She also said that water meters from several other houses in the area were also stolen."
"We then started our investigation and I gave directions to my staff, and based on a reliable source, we nabbed the accused and thoroughly interrogated him. The accused confessed to the crime. We also recovered seven meters at his instance and are now on the lookout for the other accused that was seen in the CCTV," said Nayak.
