Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The West Division police of Basaveshwara Nagar police tracked and arrested a gang of six including woman within 12 hours of crime who robbed a businesswoman and her partner worth over Rs.9.5 lakh worth gold valuables and cash after blackmailing them that they are doing immoral activities on sunday.
Senior officer told media persons,as on Sunday our control room got a call stating that around 8 persons including four woman barged into their house and took away gold and cash worth of Rs.9.5 lakhs.
As soon as the information was passed to Basaveshwara Nagar police station senior officer as,DCP West, Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,Vijayanagar, Nanjundegowda K,PI,E Yeriswamy,and their crime staff rushed to the spot and after inspecting the spot a special team was formed to nab the gang.
A special team headed by PI, Yeriswamy,PSI,Sathish and team swung into action and after collecting details about the incident from the victim the team started analysing CCTV footage in and around the area and with the help of technical inputs the zeroed in on six persons.
After apprehending six person and during investigation all the six accused confessed the crime and revealed how they hatched a plan to trap the businesswoman and her partner.
The accused during investigation revealed that the prime accused Deepa knew that the victim,Anju J was living alone and selling clothes and cosmetics in her house for her livelihood with her business partner.
The prime accused Deepa who kept a close watch on the duo and monitored their movements and knew about Anju’s business hatched a plan and roped her associates to rob her.
As per the plan,Deepa visited Anju to discuss about Cloth business when Anju’s business partner Jagadisha has come to supply cosmetics.
While Anju,Deepa and Jagadish were discussing business, Deepa shared information with her pals comprising of four women and four men barged into the house, and accused them of carrying out immoral activities,they then disrobed Jagadish and videographed him with Deepa and blackmailed them of doing viral on social media platforms.
The accused then demanded ransom of Rs.5 lakh and ransacked the house and took away gold valuables and cash Rs.1.7 lakh when Jagadish refused to pay.
The accused along with Deepa fled from the scene after locking Anju and Jagadish in the house .
Anju managed to open the door and with the help of neighbours alerted the control room.
Based on their statement the team recovered 152.5 grams of gold valuables,a mobile phone and cash Rs.63,000 and a scooter which they used in the crime.
A detailed investigation by the team it has revealed that the accused are known to each other and are working as manual labourers in the industrial area.They robbed the woman and the business partner of gold and cash Later took money from PhonePe of the male person and miked him with Rs.1.82 paise this also helped us to track them down soon,and efforts are on to nab the other two a male and woman of the gang who are absconding a team is on job to track them and will be nabbed soon and further investigation is on to ascertain their criminal background.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP K Nanjundegowda,PI,E Yeriswamy,PSI,Sathish Kumar,Kubera,and crime staff as,Puttaswamy,Mohammed Ali,Raghu,Ramesh,Rupesh,Srinivas,and other crime staff who has done a meticulous investigation and detected the case within 12 hours by arresting a six accused and recovered robbed gold ornaments and cash from them a special reward will be given to the whole team for their excellent investigation in solving the case he added.
