Ahmedabad, Oct 25: Gujarat Police's Ahmedabad Crime Branch has arrested two men and apprehended a juvenile in connection with a house burglary in the Narol area in which gold and silver jewellery and cash worth Rs 19.10 lakh were stolen, recovering property valued at Rs 14.35 lakh within days of the crime, police said on Sunday.

Source: IANS via hiINDiA

The burglary took place between 11 p.m. on October 18 and 3 a.m. on October 19, when the accused allegedly broke the lock of the complainant's house and stole jewellery and cash worth Rs 19,10,850. A case was registered at Narol police station.

During patrolling on October 24 to detect property-related offences in Ahmedabad, a Crime Branch team received information that led to the arrest of Mohammed Sohel alias Sahil alias Pagal Mohammed Shakeel Rajput, 22, and Mohammed Rehman alias Shah Rukh alias Mau Mohammed Parvez Sheikh, 20. A juvenile was also apprehended; police have not released the juvenile's identity.

Police recovered gold, silver and other metal jewellery worth Rs 13,02,800, cash amounting to Rs 22,770, a two-wheeler valued at Rs 50,000 and two mobile phones worth Rs 60,000. Fourteen bills for gold and silver jewellery, a screwdriver, an Aadhaar card, a PAN card and a driving licence were also seized.

The arrests and recovery were reported by the news agency IANS on Sunday, with the agency's Ahmedabad dateline carried on October 26. Further investigation in the case is underway, police said. The allegations against the arrested men are yet to be tested in court.