A police team from the capital has indeed nabbed Bikram Bishwakarma, who had stolen 150 tolas of gold ornaments on August 2 from a jewelry shop at the Bypass areas of Balaju in Katmandu where he worked as a goldsmith.[break]
Following Bishwakarma´s arrest in Bardibash in Mahottari district on Tuesday, the police have also recovered more than half of the stolen ornaments from Sarlahi, Mahottari and Dhanusha districts in the region.
Bishwakarma, 25, of Chapur VDC-8 of Rautahat, and his girl friend Menuka, had distributed the ornaments to their relatives from Kavre, Sindhuli, Rautahat, Sarlahi, Janakpur and distributed the gold among them, informed Police Inspector Lal Singh Subedi.
The police was able to track Biswakarma down at Bardibash after tracing his mobile phone calls.
“It was not an easy task,” Inspector Subedi added. “He had been using five different sim cards to contact his families.”
“Right after stealing the gold, he first met his girl friend, handed her some of the gold ornaments and fled with her until Sindhuli. From there, he traveled on his own,” Subedi adds.
Menuka, a window, had fallen in love with Bikram after meeting him in Kathmandu, and they were living together for a while now.
Menuka has also confessed that she had helped Bikram to hide the ornaments.
“I wore some of the gold items and we wrapped the rest in clothes. Then we headed for Sindhuli in a taxi the very day he stole them,” says she.
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