Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Aug 19: Police today said a thief was arrested with stolen cash and property within eight hours after he robbed foreign tourists here.
A police spokesman said Bangladeshi tourists in a written complaint informed that unknown persons broke in their room at Hotel Hamza in Buchwara area of Dalgate here and robbed them.
“Accordingly, a case under FIR number 85/2017 was registered at police post Nehru Park under relevant sections of law and investigation started. The special team was constituted.
“During the course of Investigation several suspects were rounded up using human and technical intelligence and one of them a resident of Baramulla identified as Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh confessed involvement in the theft,” the spokesman said.
On disclosure of Fayaz, stolen cash of Rs. 8800 Indian currency and 230 Bangladeshi Taka, Canon DSR, Xiomi Note 4 were recovered from his possession. Further investigation into the matter is going on, the spokesman added.
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