The Telangana Police have detained a retired military officer and two accomplices in reference to the August 30 theft of firearms from a Madras Regiment armoury at Bolarum within the Secunderabad cantonment space, officers mentioned on Friday.
The breakthrough follows a multi-agency probe involving the Bolarum and Malkajgiri police, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA), and navy intelligence.
In accordance with a senior Malkajgiri police official, a joint group searched the retired officer’s residence in Mahabubnagar late Thursday evening. Stolen weapons and ammunition have been subsequently recovered from a location in Hyderabad.
The officer is learnt to have beforehand served with the Madras Regiment and retired solely a few months in the past.
An official mentioned investigators have been attempting to ascertain whether or not the retired officer was helped by an insider to steal the weapons and ammunition from the secured armoury.
The incident that got here to mild on August 31 morning concerned the theft of 12 rifles, 21 magazines, a night-vision binoculars and 1,912 rounds of ammunition. The miscreants broke open the locks and bins containing weapons and ammunition at “Kote and Battalion Journal” (ammunition storage) at Bolarum.
After preliminary inside inquiry, the authorities lodged a criticism with the Bolarum police.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the miscreants might need thrown the stolen weapons over the rear boundary wall of the constructing, which have been picked up by others ready on the opposite aspect of the wall.
“The armoury space has separate personnel answerable for the storage and concern of weapons and ammunition. So, the investigating authorities examined the doable position of the officers answerable for the Bell of Arms and the ammunition part, and whether or not their alleged cooperation enabled the retired officer to achieve entry to the weapons,” the official quoted above mentioned.
Police groups are actually verifying the recovered {hardware} to make sure all lacking gadgets are accounted for. Multi-agency investigators are additionally probing the last word motive behind the theft, together with the deliberate vacation spot of the stolen weapons.