One arrested for cable theft

GANGTOK, 01 Aug: One person was arrested by the Sadar police and a case of theft registered against him at the Sadar Police Station on 31 July.
On 31 July at around 2.10 PM, the Sadar police received a written FIR from Subedar HR Yadav [SJCO, 2 Company, 17 MDSR] reporting that between 27 to 30 July some unknown person(s) had stolen 280 meters of JFC cable from Ganesh Tok and old Cantonment area.
During the course of investigation, police visited the area and beat patrolling in the area was intensified, which paid off, as later Beat XIII [Chandmari Beat] and Beat XVI [Bulbulay Beat] caught one Pemba Tamang [24], a resident of Chandmari, Gangtok red handed in the jungle at Bulbulay, who was then in the process of burning the JFC cable to extract copper.
He was arrested and the stolen property recovered. He has been booked under section 379 [punishment for theft] of the Indian Penal Code.