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Four students from Bengaluru who were still minors decided to execute their robbery plans to bear the expense of drugs, cigarettes and Snacks. Lone victims, particularly people passing through bus stands and isolated streets, were their target. 

Three students, studying in class 9th and one in the first year of PU, came together to execute pre-dawn robberies across East Bengaluru for over a year to provide for their addiction.

A robbery on July 3 led to their arrest as their luck ran out after a year, when KR Puram police caught them. A woman in her 50s was walking past Garden City College when two minors arrived on a stolen scooter and snatched the woman’s bag and mobile phone. The woman had come from Andhra Pradesh and carried nearly 470 grams of gold. 

All four of them gathered at the site where they would meet to divide the stolen goods. They panicked on discovering such a huge amount of gold in the bag and buried it in the cemetery. And started guessing the woman’s UPI ID, and for their good luck, one of them cracked it to be 123456. 

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They bought snacks, cigarettes from the nearby hotel using the same UPI.

The woman filed a complaint at the KR Puram police station around 8 am, prompting swift action. Led by Inspector Ramamurthy B, a team reviewed footage from over 30 CCTV cameras in the college area and cemetery. Although the cameras captured the scooter, the boys' identities remained unknown until hotel CCTV footage was accessed.

Hotel staff recognised one of the students as a regular customer, enabling police to track him down. By evening, officers picked him up from his home, and based on his statement, detained the other three juveniles.

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The stolen mobile phone was recovered from the PU student. The group then led police to the cemetery, where officers recovered the buried gold ornaments.