INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KOLKATA: Bidhannagar Police on Monday got custody of a high-flying thief, who used to move in sedans and dress up in corporate formals while
committing some 1,200 odd burglaries across 14 states over 25 years, in connection with a two-year-old burglary at Sourav Abasan in Salt
Lake.Police said Nadeem Qureshi (45) owns properties worth crores in Mumbai and Pune and his teenaged children study in reputable schools
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.The officers finally
came to know that he was arrested by Rajasthan Police and went there to interrogate him when his role was clearly established with the crime
"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
A Salt Lake court sent him to seven-day police custody on Monday," said the officer.A Class V dropout, Qureshi had forayed into the world of
crime by stealing cattle in his native village in Ghaziabad
At the age of 17, he had already committed multiple burglaries
Over the years, he has committed burglaries in Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Odisha and
In Bengal, similar crimes were committed in 2021 at Narayanpur and Baguiati
Cops are now tracing Qureshi's connections here."He moved around in formal attire and entered less-guarded housing complexes or
stand-alone buildings in chauffeur-driven cars and used to take elevators till the top of a building
From there, he used to walk down the stairs to check out locked homes
He used to target those that were not locked for long
He used to steal only cash and gold so that the stolen booty couldn't be traced," said a senior police officer.So far, he has been arrested
at least eight times and is a proclaimed offender in at last 23 cases.He had even tutored a team called "Nadeem gang" who used to function
