Wanted in 1,200 burglaries in 14 states, Kolkata police gets custody of crorepati thief

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Bidhannagar Police on Monday got custody of a high-flying thief, Nadeem Qureshi in connection with a two-year-old burglary at Sourav Abasan in Salt Lake, TOI reported. Qureshi, 45, has committed as many as 1,200 odd burglaries across 14 states over 25 years. The burglar king owns properties worth crores in Mumbai and Pune, the police said.

His teenaged children study in reputable schools, they added.Ghaziabad police brought him to Bengal from Tihar jail. «He is wanted in burglary cases across the country. His modus operandi was unique and that made him leave crime scenes with ease.

We had first traced him in 2021 after he had committed a robbery worth Rs 12 lakhs at two flats at Sourav Abasan. We had tracked him till Kona Expressway but then we lost his trail,» said a senior officer of Bidhannagar City Police to TOI. The officers went to Rajasthan to interrogate him, when they learnt that he was arrested by Rajasthan Police.

«However, he was then shifted to Tihar jail after being convicted in a burglary case in Ghaziabad. He has been lodged there since 2021. We had placed a production remand before the jail authorities who finally allowed our prayer last week and Ghaziabad police brought him to Bengal.

A Salt Lake court sent him to seven-day police custody on Monday,» said the officer. Qureshi, a class V dropout, had forayed into the world of crime by stealing cattle in his native village in Ghaziabad and by the time he turned 17, he had already committed multiple burglaries. Over the years, he has committed burglaries in several states including Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Odisha.