Pune:
Police investigations into the October 19 burglary in a bungalow in Mahatma Society, Kothrud, have thrown up unlikely suspects: two minor boys aged 9 and 13 years.
The duo made away with diamond and gold jewellery and silverware valued at Rs 5.28 lakh.
Deputy commissioner of police (zone-I) Dnyaneshwar Phadtare said on Sunday the Kothrud police have detained a teenaged student of standard VIII in a Kothurd-based school, a 9-year-old lad and one Dnyaneshwar Sheku Shinde (24), and recovered the booty from their possession.
A day before committing the crime, the teenager was at the (complainant Sadhana Rajiv Kulkarni's) bungalow to pluck guavas.
"He discovered a window on the terrace from where a boy could enter the bungalow," the police said.
Later he, along with the 9-year-old, broke the grill of the window and gained access to the bungalow.
Together they broke open a cupboard and fled with the booty. The teenager then contacted Shinde for safe custody of the loot, and gave the 9-year-old boy five silver pots and Rs100 for his services.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by senior inspector Chandrakant Ghodke of the Kothrud police station arrested Shinde and detained the two minors from Kothrud area.
Phadtare said the police had recovered the stolen silver utensils and cash from the house of the 9-year-old.
When the police quizzed the boy, he told them that he participated in the crime because he wanted Rs 500 "to buy a credit card".
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