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GARTALA: They were as elusive as Macavity, the mystery cat and stealthier thieves, giving city police the slip for weeks together. That was
until a doctor played Sherlock Holmes at his backyard and spotted "small footprints".
Three little children suspected to be Bangladeshi juveniles Kalam Miah (12), Taslima Akhtar (13) and Swapna Akhtar(15) were nabbed by locals on Wednesday after Subhendu Debbarma, a doctor residing at Advisor Choumuhani in the heart of the city, found small, muddy footprints on his lawn and alerted them. "The footprints indicated that the thieves could very well be children," he said.
Based on his clue, residents searched the locality and caught the quartet, but one boy managed to escape before a police party arrived. The trio was later handed over to the cops. Police said Kalam, Taslima and Swapna, along with another minor boy, had entered Tripura from Bangladesh through the Sonamura border and reached Agartala.
During interrogation, the kids not only confessed that they had committed the crime but also told cops that they were from Brahmanbariya district of Bangladesh. They had come across the border to Tripura a few weeks ago had been staying at a rented house in the Border Golchakkar area. Police recovered gold jewellery worth about Rs 1 lakh as well as some cash from their house. "We are looking for the fourth member of the gang," said Subrata Chakrabarty, West Agartala police station officer in-charge.
The little thieves had been on a robbing spree for quite a few weeks. But their luck ran out when they looted Debbarma's home. He had been on a Puja vacation outside the state. On his return, he found valuables had been stolen during his absence. Besides informing the police, Debbarma took the cue from another doctor of yesteryears Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and did some investigations of his own, which finally helped nab the culprits.
A few days ago, five Bangladeshi juvenile delinquents who had been involved in similar crimes in Agartala and its suburbs had fled from juvenile custody. Police said thieves and dacoits usually use Bangladeshi children who roam the city roads as rag pickers for identifying vulnerable houses and sneeking into them at night. "They would squeeze into the homes through ventilators or windows and then open the door for the main group waiting nearby, who would then loot the house of valuables," Chakrabarty added.
GARTALA: They were as elusive as Macavity, the mystery cat and stealthier thieves, giving city police the slip for weeks together. That was
until a doctor played Sherlock Holmes at his backyard and spotted "small footprints".
Three little children suspected to be Bangladeshi juveniles Kalam Miah (12), Taslima Akhtar (13) and Swapna Akhtar(15) were nabbed by locals on Wednesday after Subhendu Debbarma, a doctor residing at Advisor Choumuhani in the heart of the city, found small, muddy footprints on his lawn and alerted them. "The footprints indicated that the thieves could very well be children," he said.
Based on his clue, residents searched the locality and caught the quartet, but one boy managed to escape before a police party arrived. The trio was later handed over to the cops. Police said Kalam, Taslima and Swapna, along with another minor boy, had entered Tripura from Bangladesh through the Sonamura border and reached Agartala.
During interrogation, the kids not only confessed that they had committed the crime but also told cops that they were from Brahmanbariya district of Bangladesh. They had come across the border to Tripura a few weeks ago had been staying at a rented house in the Border Golchakkar area. Police recovered gold jewellery worth about Rs 1 lakh as well as some cash from their house. "We are looking for the fourth member of the gang," said Subrata Chakrabarty, West Agartala police station officer in-charge.
The little thieves had been on a robbing spree for quite a few weeks. But their luck ran out when they looted Debbarma's home. He had been on a Puja vacation outside the state. On his return, he found valuables had been stolen during his absence. Besides informing the police, Debbarma took the cue from another doctor of yesteryears Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and did some investigations of his own, which finally helped nab the culprits.
A few days ago, five Bangladeshi juvenile delinquents who had been involved in similar crimes in Agartala and its suburbs had fled from juvenile custody. Police said thieves and dacoits usually use Bangladeshi children who roam the city roads as rag pickers for identifying vulnerable houses and sneeking into them at night. "They would squeeze into the homes through ventilators or windows and then open the door for the main group waiting nearby, who would then loot the house of valuables," Chakrabarty added.
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