2 held for stealing expensive gadgets from classmate

Two students of a well-known English medium school in the city will be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board as investigation revealed that they had stolen expensive electronic gadgets from one of their classmate's house at Kasba to recharge their mobile phones.

Police said that eight months ago, an expensive laptop was stolen from the house of a senior state government official. Again on March 7, an iPod, Playstation and a mobile phone were stolen from the house.

The government officials went to the police station and lodged a complaint in this connection. The police initially couldn't solve the mystery behind it.

Later, they came to know that two classmates of the official's son often used to visit their house.

It led to their suspicion and police checked mobile phones of both the boys. Their WhatsApp chat revealed that they wanted to buy something expensive.

Later, investigation revealed that they had bought the same, but they didn't get the money from their parents.

Thus police initiated questioning the boys. They failed to suppress the truth for a long time in front of the police and confessed their guilt. They told the police that they had refilled motorbikes and recharged their mobile phones with the money that they had gotten against the electronics goods which got stolen from the complainant's house.

It may be mentioned that officers of the Kolkata Police's detective department had found that youth from well known families and good background had got involved in crime like snatching just to make fast money as they had aspired to buy expensive bikes with it.