Newskarnataka-Moodbidri
Moodbidri : The Moodbidri police have secured custody of Santosh Das alias Ghanashyam and Rajaji Santhethi, the accused in the Siddantha Darshana Mandir theft case, following a body warrant against the two.
The police on realizing that there was similarity in the mode of theft at the Kodyadka Sri Annapoorneshwari Kshetra on June 29, 2009 and the Siddantha Mandir theft case, had appealed to the court to provide the custody of the accused. The thieves had stolen several valuables from the temple. But the police who could not trace the accused had earlier filed a C Report in the court.
Recently, the police had appealed to the court seeking custody of the two. Though the advocate for the accused Nagash Shetty had argued that the accused was sick, the court has handed them over to three days of conditional police custody.