India, May 27 -- The Pimpri-Chinchwad Police have arrested three members of a gang allegedly involved in 48 cases of theft of electricity transformers across Pune district, officials said on Tuesday.

The Chakan North Police cracked the case while probing the theft of copper wires from a transformer installed at Nexus Healthcare in Biradwadi village, Khed taluka, between May 15 and 16, 2026. Another related theft in the Santosh Nagar area was also under investigation.

Chandrashekhar Morkhande, PSI at Chakan North police station, said, "Following the incident, police examined around 100-150 CCTV cameras in the surrounding areas and used technical analysis along with confidential inputs to trace the accused."

The arrested accused were ide...