Adilabad Police crack ₹32-lakh ventilator theft case, arrest two

ADILABAD Adilabad Police have cracked the theft case involving four ventilators worth ₹32 lakh from the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Adilabad on October 30, arresting two persons linked to an inter-State medical equipment theft racket, including the alleged buyer of the stolen equipment. The police recovered all four ventilators, besides other medical devices stolen from the Nizamabad Government hospital in Telangana and two Government Hospitals in Maharashtra, and seized ₹1 lakh in cash.

Briefing the media on Saturday, Adilabad Superintendent of Police Akhil Mahajan identified the arrested persons as Sajjan Basanth Mote, 43, the prime accused from Chandrapur in Maharashtra and M. Konda Reddy, 35, a Hyderabad-based medical equipment dealer who allegedly agreed to purchase the stolen ventilators.

Another accused Abhijit, also from Chandrapur, is absconding.