Mangaluru, October 7: The Dakshina Kannada district police team cracked a dacoity case within an hour of crime and recovered cash Rs 4.10 lakhs and arrested five accused who had looted the cash bag of a business man from Vittal town while he was travelling in his car.
Addressing a press meet here on Tuesday, October 6th, DK Superintendent of Police Dr S D Sharanappa said, five minutes after the burglary took place; the person who was burgled off his cash had given appropriate information to the local police station. Due to the brisk operations undertaken by the police the case was tracked, he said.
The arrested are identified as Ramakrishna (29), Sujith Bhandary(27), Shreyansh Jain (31) and Amulraj (36), all from Suratkal, and Manjunath Nageshappa(40) from Hospet in Ballari. Another accused has absconded and police have launched a search to nab him, informed SP Dr SD Sharanappa.
Details of the incident:
At around 8.15 pm on Monday, a person identified as M Subhashchandra Nayak locked his grocery shop located at Vittal town and left for home in his car, carrying cash amount of Rs 4.10 lakhs placed in a black bag. He had kept the cash in the back seat of his car. When he reached the curved road near Vittal government hospital, a white Tata Sumo with five occupants came in his way and stopped him accusing of him colliding into their car. One of them pointed a gun (which was later found to be fake) on the chest of Subhashchandra Nayak and then the gang had fled with the cash bag of Subhashchandra that was in the car. Immediately Subhashchandra informed the matter to the local police station.
The Vittal police immediately swung into action and passed information to the district police control room. In addition, the Bantwal rural police and Vittal police chased the Tata Sumo vehicle of the burglars.
Meanwhile, the district control room alerted all the police stations. The Ullal and Konaje police teams, led by SI Bharati and SI Sudhakar intercepted the Tata Sumo at Konaje and arrested the gang of robbers. They recovered all the cash that was robbed from Subhashchandra Nayak, and also seized a fake gun, Tata Sumo and mobile phones from the accused, explained Dr SD Sharanappa.
There are no information on the involvement of the accused in other crimes earlier. Further investigations will go on, said the SP.
Plot since four months….
From four months, these five along with another accused had plotted for the robbery. By profession, these five accused are temporary drivers who faced financial problems. Meanwhile, these came to know a person from Kasargod with whose help this burglary was plotted. Accused Shreyansh had borrowed the Sumo from someone. After the burglary, while the accused were trying to move to Suratkal from Vittal via Konaje, they were caught by the police, said Dr SD Sharanappa.
Appreciation certificates to the police team that cracked the case:
SP Dr SD Sharanappa presented appreciation certificates to the police team that played a key role in cracking the case. The SP praised the team work and alertness of the police personnel involved in the operation.
On this occasion, Bantwal sub-divisional Assistant Superintendent of Police Rahul Kumar was present.
