The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Gang of seven arrested

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Gang of seven arrested

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Hebbal police arrested a gang of seven persons alleged to be inter-district dacoits and recovered valuables worth Rs. 17.5 lakh.

With the arrest, the police claimed to have solved five dacoity cases, one robbery and three two-wheeler theft reported from different parts of the State.

The police gave the names of the accused as Saleem alias Mohammed Saleem alias Mehabub Sharief (40), Sahil alias Sadique (22), Amjad Sharief alias Amjad alias Chand, Prakash alias Prakash Tukaram Kurdekar (27), Santosh alias Santosh Vittal Seth, Aleem alias Munna (28) and Akram Pasha alias Akram (22).

The recovered items included 1.6 kg gold jewellery, three two-wheelers, two television sets, one washing machine, one fridge and one DVD player.

The gang in the guise of scrap merchants used to gather information about people moving with cash and valuables. Later, it attacked victims and fled with the valuables, the police said.

Upon investigation, the police said the gang attacked and robbed Jagadish of Rs. 1.6 lakh, while he was on his way home after closing shop in Devaraja police station limits in Mysore in 2003; in 2005, the gang took away Rs. 8,99,750 from Peera after attacking him in Gandhinagar police station limits in Bellary; it had attacked Sriramdas, a jewellery merchant from Belgaum who had with him 260 gm of jewellery in Banashankari police station limits in Bangalore in 2006; in January 2007, the gang followed Panduranga, who was working with Harish Habib, a gold merchant in Hubli, to Mumbai, and robbed him of Rs. 16.5 lakh after threatening him; later in August, the gang followed jewellers Arun and Rajesh, from Karwar to Bangalore and looted 1.5 kg gold from them near Ananda Rao Circle.

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