MARGAO
The Fatorda police have achieved a breakthrough in the Rs 50 lakh gold heist with the arrest of a history sheeter Paul Cheema and his accomplice.
The police have so far managed to recover gold ornaments valued over Rs 30 lakh.
Gold ornaments valued around Rs 50 lakh was stolen from an apartment owned by Deborah Fernandes at Fatorda earlier this month when the inmates of the house had gone to Quepem.
Fatorda police station in-charge, PI Ditendra Naik informed that the police zeroed in the history sheeter Paul Cheema going by the modus operandi adopted by the burglars to commit the daring burglary.
“The accused have been involved in several house breaking thefts across the State. When we received the complaint over the Rs 50 lakh gold theft, we zeroed in on accused Cheema,” he said.
As the police investigations revealed that Cheema was holed up in Nagpur, a police team was sent to Nagpur to arrest the accused. His accomplice Arjun Desai was nabbed from Margao. The police are investigating.
