The Bengal Police Magazine. October-December 1939

(Incidentally this shows the necessity of the Superintendent of Police keeping an index of "modus operandi" for the whole district as these two cases occurred in different subdivisions so that neither of the Circle Inspectors could without the cordinatioa..bY the S. P. of information for the whole district know of the occurrence of the other case.) I continued to go through the index of CriM [...] On the basis of the knowledge possessed by the burglar the folloing circumstances deserve attention : 1. That anyone visiting the bazaar could have acquired knowledge of the fact that the one shop w s that of a monelender and the other that of a confectioner. [...] Getting early informtion of the occurrence of a burglary in a house in which entrance was effected by a hole in the roof in the same area in the city where the money-lender's case occurred the station officer; who was aware of the circumstances of the first case made an immediate visit to the private house of the confectioner and to his good fortune found this very man N in the house with [...] The third and the last case occurred on the night of the 27th -July in which a hole was made in the wall of a grocer's shop the centre of the large village of G itself. [...] In the first case that the man who was aware of the transfer of the valuablc s to the goldsmith was Shakur of G In the second case that a relative of the complainant was one Bhuray aLE r lived in G t and that the object of this burglary was to steal the valuables of a girl who had come just recently to her parents ; also that Bhuray is an ex-convict who *Extent of knowledge.