ahmedabad crime branch sleuths on saturday arrested a labour contractor kishore rathod who had taken up burglary to tide over the slowdown that has been going on for quite some time in the real estate sector they recovered stolen goods including costly watches stolen bikes and clothes worth rs 68000 from his house located at bangla area of sardarnagar according to subinspector j p rozia of cyber cell of city crime branch they had raided the house of rathod on a tipoff and seized stolen items crime branch sources said it has come to light during primary interrogation of the accused that he used to work as labour contractor for construction sites as most clients discontinued his services due to slowdown in the real estate sector rathod landed up in a financial crisis said a crime branch official rathod then went into chain snatching and small thefts however he soon got caught and had to stay in jail under the prevention of antisocial activities act pasa said the officialsubinspector rozia said after coming out of jail rathod started burglaries he also used to steal vehicles and sell of the spare parts he used to keep stolen goods at his house and sell them of gradually to avoid any suspicion