MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 5: Three juvenile offenders accused of burglary at a computer shop were remanded in police custody for four days by a judicial magistrate here on Wednesday.City police station SHO Syed Ishtiaq Gillani told Dawn that three accused, Basharat, son of Ghulam Nabi, Mohammad Ali, son of Sarwar Saghar and Farhan, son of Javed, broke into a computer shop in Plate neighbourhood and escaped with away with computers, scanners and other accessories worth Rs500,000.

The police, however, succeeded in arresting the accused, two of whom are students of first year while the third in matric, within 24 hours of the crime, he said, adding that the stolen goods were recovered from the residence of one of the accused.

Meanwhile, Mr Gillani said the city police also nabbed two members of a group involved in motorbike lifting. The police recovered six motorbikes which the accused Shafaat Shah and Malik Usman had sold out in district Hattian Bala.

In another action, the police arrested nearly a dozen drug peddlers and recovered 20kg hashish and 500 bottles of locally-brewed liquor from their possession.