The police of Sangareddy (Rural) arrested five members of an inter-district gang involved in robbing liquor stores.
Police said after breaking into liquor stores, the stolen liquor was sold at a licensed shop located at Machareddy in Kamareddy district.
The gang was also involved in lifting of cars from showrooms at Sangareddy and other places. Another four members of the gang were still at large. Police have recovered about ₹3.95 lakh cash from them.
The arrested were identified as Gurrala Srinivas, Nayakera Shiva, Velupuala Shiva Kumar, Burla Satish and Siddula Srikanth. Another four persons Rajita, Radhika, Gopala Rao and Satish were absconding.
Police said the accused had changed their names and obtained fraudulent Aadhaar cards. They have a criminal history of at least six years. Repeated efforts by the police to identify them went in vain, until they were finally nabbed.
The gang was involved in thefts at Sangareddy, Medak, Siddipet, Kamareddy, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Jagityal and Peddpally districts and committed as many as 43 offences. Police said 38 of these instances involved robbing liquor stores and five were vehicle lifting cases.
Disclosing the details here on Thursday, S. Chandrasekhar Reddy, Superintendent of Police, said the gang members were constructing houses at Machareddy, which would be attached in the case. He said Srinivas had changed his name to Srinivas Goud.
He said that Rural Circle Inspector Narender, Sub- Inspector Srikanth and others involved in nabbing the accused would be rewarded.
