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Koregaon Bhima

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Kondhwa police have arrested a man who allegedly married six different women in various localities of the city after committing big break-inin each area.Thehas been identified as Nilesh Ankush Kale (46).The case came to light after he was arrested in relation to a break-in robbery in Kondhwa. On interrogation, he spilled the beans and told cops about everything. Kale has a criminal record and police have linked him with 20 break-in robbery cases so far. He has been charged in these cases. They suspect he is involved in another 10 incidents.According to the police, the accused’s modus operandi was that he would target houses in broad daylight, when people would either be at work or dropping their children to school. they said he would commit robberies in daytime as he used to get confused about how to do it at night.Police have recovered stolen goods and cash worth a combined Rs 28.8 lakh from Kale. This includes 470 gram gold jewellery and Rs 10 lakh in cash.They said that whenever he successfully pulled off a big robbery, he wanted to celebrate so he would shift to another locality and marry a woman. This led to him marrying six different women over a period of two years.“Jeweller Prashant Dattatreya Bagade who stays in Chakan has also been arrested as he bought stolen gold from Kale,” said joint commissioner of police Ravindra Shiswe and additional commissioner Sunil Pulari in a press conference.In the past few months, the number of burglaries had increased in Bhagodaya Nagar in Kondhwa. Police linked Kale to these incidents after reviewing footage from CCTV cameras. Overall, police investigated footage from 280 cameras. However, due to no CCTV cameras being present in rural areas, investigation was hampered. Despite this, police managed to identify Kale and other accused in the thorough records from Yerwada jail. Kale was released from jail in 2017.Police recovered the information from a court in Shivajinagar on that basis. After conducting a technical investigation, they figured out that Kale stayed in the Dehu Road area. But by the time they had figured that out, the accused had shifted to. Police finally tracked him down there and arrested him. On further questioning, he confessed to theand said that he had changed residences six times since 2017.