Muthoot theft: seven-member gang held near Hyderabad
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Seven members of an armed gang who robbed 25,091 grams of gold jewelry value round ₹7.5 crore and ₹96,000 money in broad daylight from a Muthoot Finance Limited department at Hosur in Krishnagiri district on Friday, have been arrested on the outskirts of Hyderabad within the early hours of Saturday.
The inter-State dacoity gang, which was attempting to flee to Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand through Nagpur on National Highway 44, was nabbed by the Cyberabad police near Tondupally toll plaza near Shamshabad airport in a joint operation with their counterparts within the Hyderabad and Rachakonda Commissionerates of Telangana and Krishnagiri police.
The masked gang members robbed the gold ornaments on Friday morning after holding the Muthoot employees at gunpoint and took away the digital video recorder of the surveillance cameras from the department. Then, they tied down and locked the workers inside and escaped from the scene on their newly bought bikes.
Toll gate knowledge
Local police zeroed in on a gang from north India which was concerned in comparable offences in different States and primarily based on the toll gate knowledge and technical support, their autos have been tracked on National Highway 44 shifting in direction of Hyderabad. Soon, the Krishnagiri police alerted their counterparts in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra.
“Though we couldn’t catch them in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh, the gang was caught by the Telangana police,” Krishnagiri Superintendent of Police Bandi Gangadhar stated.
As quickly as they acquired info from Krishnagiri, the Telangana police deployed Armed Reserve events in any respect the toll plazas.
Around 3 a.m. near Raikal toll plaza, a police staff noticed an SUV with occupants of comparable options as narrated by the Tamil Nadu police, and was trailing it until Tondupally toll plaza as there was an enormous armed power deployment there.
Cyberabad Commissioner of Police VC Sajjanar stated Rup Singh Baghal,22, a pupil, Shankar Singh Bayyal Baghal, 36, and Pavan Kumar Vishkarma, 22, from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, Bupendhar Manji, 24, and Vivek Mandal, 32, of Ranchi, Jharkhand, who have been travelling within the SUV have been caught at Tondupally toll plaza.
The container driver Tek Ram, 55, and helper Rajeev Kumar, 35, from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh have been nabbed near Medchal.
One of the prime suspects Amith alias Vivek Shukla from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, who was travelling within the container, managed to flee.
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