7 held for stealing electronic items from govt schools

The police arrested seven accused, for stealing computers at government schools of various districts, during the lockdown, and have recovered computers and other electronics items worth Rs 61 lakh from them.

The arrested are C Ravikumar of Nagamangala taluk, S R Manjunath, S P Nagaraju, C B Hemanthkumar of Mandya taluk, S Y Ramakrishna, B G Venkatesh of Bengaluru, and Sadiq of VV Puram, Mandya. They had allegedly misused the lockdown, to steal the computers.

Addressing media persons, Superintendent of Police K Parashuram said that the accused had stolen the computers from the government schools during lockdown and sold them to Ramakrishna and Venkatesh in Bengaluru.