LUCKNOW, April 16 -- Lucknow police on Tuesday busted a modern day avatar of the mythical Ali Baba and his gang of 40 thieves, who marked houses during daytime reconnaissance and targeted them after dark.

The Chinhat police also arrested four gang members, history-sheeters, and are searching for three at large who were active since 2019 and made fortunes from the stolen valuables. The gang members were tracked through CCTV cameras and Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS) cameras and were arrested on Tuesday.

The accused were identified as Suraj Verma, 27, Akash Yadav, 22, Shyam Sundar, 23, and Md Shamim, 35, most of whom are residents of Lucknow's Indira Nagar. Those at large were identified as Shirajuddin, Rinku, from Lucknow an...