A tip-off received from a murder accused helped the Byappanahalli police arrest a 37-year-old electronics engineer-turned-notorious thief and recover gold valuables worth ₹29 lakh related to two theft cases reported five years ago.
The accused Mamani Deena, a native of Chennai and a BE graduate, worked in a leading telecom company for a few years until he was terminated from service for committing fraud. He soon joined a gang of habitual offenders and started house thefts in Nellur, Hosur, Chennai and Bengaluru until he was arrested by HSR Layout police in 2020 in a case related to theft and remanded in judicial custody.
Since then, he was in the central prison at Parappana Agrahara. According to the police, he become close to a murder accused who was in his cell and boasted about his crime and gang.
