Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Byatarayanapura police on Monday arrested a 23-year-old salesman of a mobile shop and his elder brother for cooking up a robbery story to pocket the cash,which he was carrying to shop in a scooter .
The accused Shabaaz,23 working as salesman at a wholesale mobile shop owned by Abubakar in Kasturba Nagar.
Senior officer told reporters On June 28, Abubakar based on the order,asked Shabaaz to deliver few sets of mobile phones to different shops in KR Puram and get the money .
He also asked Mohammed,another newly joined salesman to accompany Shabaaz .
The accused hatched a plan to pocket the money and roped his elder brother Azeez.As per the plan while shabaaz and Mohammed returning to the shop with the cash in a scooter,he came down on Mysore road flyover and took a deviation on a cross road instead of taking straight road to the shop .
While moving on the cross road,the accused as per the plan stopped the scooter and posing as policeman asked to open the boot space to check on drugs.
Shabaaz pretended to be scared followed his instruction and the accused soon picked up the cash bag,threatened the duo with dire consequences not to follow and sped away.
Pretending to be under shock,Shabaaz called Abubakar and narrated the story,following which a complaint was filed with the jurisdictional Byatarayanapura police .
The police took up the probe and upon questioning Shabaaz found many lose ends and variations in the narration .
The police suspected that why Shabaaz took a deviation against the usual straight road and checked his call record details.
The CDR details found he had called Azeez many times before and after the incident and Azeez tower location was also found in the scene of crime around the same time.
Getting some leads about his involvement,the police took Shabaaz into custody and a detailed questioning led him to confess.
The police arrested the duo and recovered the cash, which they have intended to share and use for their vices .
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,B Dayananda has appreciated Addl CP West,N Satheesh Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Division), Lakshman Nimbargi,and his whole team for cracking the case successfully and a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.
