The Rich Robber: Commutes In Sedans, Dressed In Formals And Wanted In 1200 Cases Arrested

In connection with a two-year-old burglary at Sourav Abasan in Salt Lake, Bidhannagar Police on Monday arrested a high-flying criminal who used to drive sedans and dress in business suits while conducting about 1,200 odd thefts across 14 states over 25 years. According to the police, Nadeem Qureshi (45), who has houses in Mumbai and Pune valued in the crores, sends his teenage children to respectable schools. He was transported from Tihar prison to Bengal by Ghaziabad police.

Senior officer of Bidhannagar City Police said…

“He is wanted in burglary cases across the country. His modus operandi was unique and that made him leave crime scenes with ease. We had first traced him in 2021 after he had committed a robbery worth Rs 12 lakhs at two flats at Sourav Abasan. We had tracked him till Kona Expressway but then we lost his trail,” said a senior officer of Bidhannagar City Police.

When his involvement in the crime was amply proven, the officers finally learned that he had been taken into custody by the Rajasthan Police and went to question him there. The officer said,  “However, he was then shifted to Tihar jail after being convicted in a burglary case in Ghaziabad. He has been lodged there since 2021. We had placed a production remand before the jail authorities who finally allowed our prayer last week and Ghaziabad police brought him to Bengal. A Salt Lake court sent him to seven-day police custody on Monday.”

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Nadeem Qureshi started with just one cattle

Qureshi, a Class V dropout, got his start in crime by robbing cows in his home village in Ghaziabad. He had already committed numerous burglaries by the time he was 17 years old. He has broken into homes in a number of states throughout the years, including Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Odisha, and others. Similar crimes were conducted in Bengal in 2021 at Baguiati and Narayanpur. Police are currently tracing Qureshi’s contacts in this area.

“He moved around in formal attire and entered less-guarded housing complexes or stand-alone buildings in chauffeur-driven cars and used to take elevators till the top of a building. From there, he used to walk down the stairs to check out locked homes. He used to target those that were not locked for long. He used to steal only cash and gold so that the stolen booty couldn’t be traced,” said a senior police officer.