Bengaluru: The factory owners in the Peenya Industrial area are a worried lot as a gang of women, posing as ragpickers, are carrying out thefts in factories.
The gang, comprising eight women, have been captured on a CCTV camera installed outside a factory in Peenya industrial area.
In the footage released to media by a factory owner, a gang of women carrying huge gunny bags on their shoulders are seen roaming on roads and checking the shutter locks of factories.
After zeroing in on a target, they allegedly break open the locks, collect whatever they can get inside and stuff them in their gunny bags and flee.
The gang allegedly carries rods and other lethal weapons to attack those who come in their way. Recently, the gang allegedly struck on a factory belonging to one Nagaraj and decamped with valuables worth lakhs.
When Nagaraj found some equipment missing in his factory, he checked the footage from CCTV cameras installed outside his factory and found a group of women moving carrying gunny bags and checking the lock of his factory.
However, he has neither approached the police nor filed any complaint regarding the same. DCP (North) Chethan Singh Rathor told Deccan Chronicle that he came to know about the incident from media, but there was no complaint registered in this regard.
“I heard about the women gang carrying out recces of the Peenya industrial area and the theft they allegedly committed in a factory. The area comes under Peenya police station limits and there was no complaint either from Nagaraj or his associates, in whose factory the alleged theft was reported,” he said.
The police, however, have increased the night patrolling in the Peenya industrial area to check on the women gang.
