Sarthak Kanjilal
Port Blair, Apt 05: In an interesting development one person stole the Donation Box of Police Temple today at wee hours, unaware of the fact that his act was recorded by the CCTV camera, placed inside the Temple premises.
According to details, one person entered inside the temple at wee hours today and removed the donation box from the temple’s main building and ran away with the box. The expert thief took only 15 to 20 minutes to remove the box, which was fixed with iron rods.
The matter was later reported to police at 4.00 AM and after watching the CCTV footage the thief was identified as Mr. N Elango, 48 years, a resident of Dignabad. Elango was earlier arrested by police for stealing a golden crown, from the same temple.
Police also found that there was another person who helped Mr. Elango in this act but was not seen in the CCTV footage. He was later identified as Mr. S Mohan Mani, 63 years, resident of Shadipur.
Although temple committee believes there was nearly Rs. 20,000 inside the donation box but only Rs. 6,000 could be recovered from both the accused. The donation box which was partially destroyed was also recovered from the accused.
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