Karnal, May 3 -- The Kurukshetra police on Friday said that their CIA-2 branch has arrested two men for stealing transformers and transformer items. Police say that the two accused have confessed to their involvement in 70 such cases.

The accused were identified as Sajid Khan and Arafat, both natives of Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh.

Sharing details, a police spokesperson said that swift action was taken following a complaint received from the SDO electricity department's Ladwa office following which a case was lodged, and probe was handed over to CIA-2.

On April 29, the team arrested the duo from Saharanpur and were taken into five days of remand.

During the remand, the police team also managed to recover about four quintals o...