Mobile phone trail leads Singtam police to gold cache

GANGTOK, 20 Nov: The arrest of a suspected mobile phone thief by the Singtam police led to the recovery of a small cache of gold jewelry and the solving of another burglary. When the Singtam police, acting on source information, searched the house of Jiwan Rai at Bardang, East Sikkim, they only expected to recover a mobile phone reportedly stolen from the house of Rajesh Pradhan of Lall Bazaar, Singtam.
The phone reportedly belonged to his son.
Not only was the mobile phone recovered, in course of the search the police recovered gold coins, gold earrings, gold nose ring, a green gemstone, a silver statue of Lord Ganesh, 2 pieces of moti, 2 laptops, 3 more mobile phones, an ipod, coins worth Rs. 1,065 and a cash amount of Rs. 6,400.
All the items were seized on suspicion of being stolen goods. Soon enough this was proved right when information came in that the same had been stolen from a house in Baghey Khola, Rangpo. A couple of days ago the Rangpo police had received a complaint from Dhan Bahadur Subba of Baghey khola wherein he had stated that the above mentioned items had been stolen from his house along with cash amount of Rs. 18,200.
The Singtam police have arrested Jiwan Rai, 23 and his suspected accomplice, Debabrata Roy, 20 of North Dinajpur, West Bengal.