India, Feb. 9 -- A software engineer who allegedly led a double life, working in the tech sector by day and carrying out serial house break-ins by night, has now been arrested by the police in Visakhapatnam for a string of burglaries across Andhra Pradesh.

The 27-year-old accused, identified as Achhi Mahesh Reddy, also known as Sunny, was taken into custody on Sunday after months of investigation triggered by repeated complaints of nighttime thefts in the city.

Investigators were surprised to find that Sunny, a postgraduate who had previously worked with a reputed IT company in Hyderabad, was allegedly behind the thefts, according to an NDTV report. A native of Kakinada, Sunny was living in the Madhavadhara area of Visakhapatnam.

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