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Dacoity case: Janata Dal (Secular) leader seeks CoD probe

GULBARGA: The former Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader S.K. Kanta on Monday demanded that the State Government direct the Corps of Detectives (CoD) to investigate the manner in which the local police cracked a four-year-old dacoity case in which more than seven kg gold ornaments were looted and a watchman was murdered.

Mr. Kanta told presspersons here that the process of investigation and recovery of the gold ornaments had many loose ends. He asked how the dacoits or the receivers had kept the ornaments intact without selling them for four years.

Mr. Kanta claimed that the recovered ornaments were not the ones which were looted four years ago. He said the police team that investigated the case had shown interest only in recovering the ornaments. He said that the police had not bothered to probe the murder of the watchman.

Mr. Kanta said the recovery of the ornaments from the receivers and the dacoits appeared suspicious. At the time of the recovery of these ornaments, the police had not cared to do a “panchanama” and get the signatures of the witnesses, he added.

Mr. Kanta said in the two first information reports (FIRs) filed before the local court, the police had not mentioned anything about the “panchanama” or submitted copies of the “panchanama,” which is a must in case of recovery of stolen articles.

He said the State Government should take serious note of the way in which the police investigated the case and recovered the ornaments. An inquiry by the CoD would throw light on how the same ornaments could be recovered after four years from the receivers. Mr. Kanta also wanted the ornaments to be tested to ascertain when they were made. He said the police who had patted their own backs on solving the case had allegedly recovered the ornaments from a few jewellery merchants in the city and from the houses of some of the accused in Hyderabad.

He, however, said the police did not mention why the watchman was murdered and what the narco-analysis and brain mapping test on the accused revealed. Mr. Kanta said that although the police had recovered the ornaments on December 24 and 25, allegedly based on the information provided by the accused, it took more than a week to file the FIR before the court on the recovery. The first FIR was filed on January 2 and the second FIR on January 7.

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