Juvenile held
Source: The Sangai Express / Times News Network
New Delhi, September 16 2015:
Months after cracking the Holy Child Auxilium School burglary case, police have arrested a juvenile who had helped the main accused, from Manipur, break into the school building.
Police said the juvenile is also from Manipur and his fingerprints matched those collected from the break-in at Mount Carmel School days before the burglary in Vasant Vihar.
"An 18-member team led by Inspector STF Rajinder Singh had analyzed the CCTV footage from the school which showed three men scaling the boundary wall to enter and exit.
We zeroed in on the suspects after analyzing fingerprints collected from the scene," said Prem Nath, DCP, South.
The prints were matched with the State crime record bureau for matching all the prints with those of 1,000 suspects-collected from dossiers and in person-tested across 33 labs in the country.
They even had the blood samples of the three campus dogs tested as they seemed to have been drugged on the morning of the theft.
Police suspected the case to be the handiwork of drug addicts.
During examination it was found that the fingerprints picked up from the drawer of the principal matched with that of the juveniles.
He had also tried to take the money kept in a piggy bank at the Holy Child school.
Police said that he was nabbed from a locality in south Delhi and sent to a JJ board.
The south Delhi school had its alumna Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani come calling after the theft was discovered on February 13.Both the doors to the Principal's office and the accountant's were found broken and cash worth Rs 12,500 and a few cellphones were found missing.
In mid-May, three students trying to burgle Mount Carmel School, South Campus, were arrested by the local police.
STF chief Rajender Singh's team had their fingerprints taken and sent to CFSL.
The report arrived a month later on June 30.The prints matched those on the drawer of the Principal of the Vasant Vihar school.