aurangabad the crime branch of the city police have zeroed in on a gang of minors for their alleged involvement in a series of burglaries committed last week a number of shops in the harsul begumpura satara and osmanpura areas were burgled last week leaving the city police redfaced with embarassment the incident evoked serious questions on the city polices ability to bring a check on the surge in the number of property offences even commissioner of aurangabad police chiranjeev prasad pulled up the police station heads asking them to ensure strict night patrolling in their respective jurisdictionsinspector of the crime branch anil gaikwad said that based on the footage captured in the cctv cameras installed in some of the shops many minors were seen involved in the burglaries of which two people have been identified and their houses searched police are yet to ascertain the identity of the other minors preliminary probe has revealed that of the two people who have been identified one is a minor while the other is a suspected property offender on police record some of the stolen articles including a couple of mobile phones and readymade clothes have been seized from their homes both the minor and the suspect on police record have gone underground said gaikwadofficers at the crime branch said that they have launched a manhunt for the duo on the run and would be able to take further action after they get hold of them or were able to identify the other minors the crime branch has also nabbed a 35yearold criminal on police record chandrakant magre on the charges of lifting a bike from the premises of the district and sessions court in addition to this the detection branch of jinsi police station has nabbed three porters working in the old mondha area of the city the suspects have been identified as sagar kharat 20 suyog jadhav 19 both from osmanpur area and farooq ahmed shah 22 from sanjaynagar area of the city police have also recovered valuables worth rs 1 lakh from the suspects sources said that the suspects claimed that they were left jobless after the imposition of the lockdown and started targeting shops in different localities to feed their families