GUNTUR: The Guntur police busted a highway robbery gang near Narsaraopet on Thursday recovering entire stolen property thanks to the swift reaction from a victim.

The gang of five dacoits attacked a lorry plying from Nakarikal to Chennai at Tripurapuram on the Narsaraopet - Hyderabad State Highway at around 10.30 p.m. and robbed Rs.14,000, a wrist watch, the Superintendent of Police, V.C. Sajjanar, told reporters.

Quick reaction from both the lorry driver and the police personnel led to the arrest of four-member gang within four hours.

Driver awarded

The gang members removed tape recorder from the vehicle by stabbing the driver Munugoti Chandraiah on his chest and shoulder when he resisted.

The police produced all the four gangsters at a press conference on Thursday. The SP offered a cash award to Chandraiah, the driver, for his bravery. Fifteen minutes after the first incident, the gang stopped another lorry and its driver Nadimpalli Venkateswarlu handed over Rs. 1,500 without resistance and allowed them to take the tape recorder, he said.

The gang kept the lorries on the roadside and continued their operations and stopped another lorry carrying cement and snatched money from the driver, who later fled without complaining to the police.

The 28-year-old Chandraiah wriggled out of the clutches of the gang members and drove his vehicle straight to the Nakariakal police station and lodged a complaint.

The Sub-Inspector, M.V. Subba Rao, two constables along with the lorry driver took a private jeep and chased the gang.

The gang, taking the jeep for a civilian vehicle, stopped it and attacked the inmates in which the constables Krishna Naik and Narayana Naik were injured. The police were able to overpower one of the members at the site of incident and sent message to nearby villages to be alert and catch hold of other persons. Within an hour the villagers of Srinivasanagar caught hold of three suspiciously moving persons near a temple and they turned out to be members of the gang, which had committed an offence earlier in Narsaraopet, the DSP, M. Pruthvinarayana, said.

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