Woman Stealing Computers in Bengaluru Since 2022 Caught With 24 Laptops

Bengaluru: A 29-year-old woman from Rajasthan allegedly stealing laptops from paying guest accommodations across Bengaluru since 2022 was arrested by the police.

Twenty-four laptops worth over Rs 24 lakh were seized from the possession of the arrested woman identified as Jassu Agarwal.

Bengaluru police tracked her down while investigating the theft of a laptop, charger and mouse from a rented house under the HAL police station limits in October 2023.

Investigation revealed that the Rajasthan woman used to conduct the thefts in paying guest accommodations in software company localities and PG areas of the city such as Tin Factory, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Silkboard Hebbala, Whitefield, Mahadevpur, etc.

She was selling the stolen laptops to laptop shops in Marathahalli, Yalahanka and Hebbal.