hyderabad a burglar kicked up a storm at a media briefing on thursday claiming that police siphoned off a major portion of the recovery made from him leaving red faces in the city policedom the incident happened when four burglarsmir kazam ali qudarath ali rauf and ashokarrested by the narayanguda police were produced before the media addressing a press conference at traffic complex at l b stadium deputy commissioner of police dcp central zone tarun joshi said we recovered 114 kilogrammes of gold and rs 35 lakhs cash from the four senior police officers as a matter of routine hold such press conferences to showcase their achievements and also in the hope that their shots picture will find a place in the visual and print media towards the end of the press conference 20yearold mir kazam ali created a ruckus broke window panes and damaged a door frame metal detector as he was being taken to a police van to be produced in court kazam shouted loudly that the police had actually recovered two kilos of gold and rs 10 lakh cash but pared down the recovery police have siphoned off one kilo gold and rs 8 lakh cash besides letting off several others involved in the burglary they are disclosing the recovered amount as just one kilo and a few lakhs of rupees kazam ali who incidentally passed out of the hyderabad public school begumpet said it is learnt that kazam hails from a royal family and his father is a unani doctor given the general reputation of the police many media persons were willing to go along with the claims of the thief according to an official release police claimed they recovered 114 kgs of gold rs 35 lakh cash a scorpio car two honda activa vehicles a karizma bike all worth rs 40 lakh from the four when contacted narayanguda inspector detective r shekar reddy said kazam ali was averse to be presented before the media and pleaded that his familys reputation would be dented police said the four in their confession had said that after stealing gold they would pledge it with a finance company which gives loan against gold however kazam who is into interior decoration business used to take the lions share and led a lavish life refuting the allegations of the thief dcp tarun joshi said the investigation in the case was done under the supervision of senior police officers as he was being brought to the press conference kazam intimidated our officers and warned that he will create nuisance he was embarrassed when he was presented before the media and it was just an emotional outburst