The city police today arrested Kosaraju Narasimha Rao (42) in connection with 48 cases of house break-ins in Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts. His wife Yendeti Ganga, who also took part in the offences, had already been arrested in January.
Police have recovered 605 gms gold ornaments and one car from Rao and attempts are on to recover over one kg gold from the couple.
DCP (Crimes) T Ravi Kumar Murthy said that Narasimha Rao, a school dropout, is a native of Eluru in West Godavari district.
Explaining the modus of operandi, the DCP said that the couple used to first conduct a recce of the houses that are locked and in the night they would break open the locks using mini crowbars and decamp with the stolen booty.
"We had arrested Ganga in January this year and recovered 500 gms gold. Now, Rao was arrested in Rajahmundry and we have recovered 605 gms gold jewellery. We are trying to recover the remaining stolen property from the couple," the DCP said.
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