Davangere , The Karnataka police have busted a six-member gang of robbers and recovered 17.7 kg of stolen gold, officers mentioned on Monday.
Karnataka Police busts gang of robbers, seize over 17 kg stolen gold
The gold was stolen from the Nyamati department of the State Financial institution of India in Davangere on October 28, 2024.
Police mentioned the stolen locker with gold ornaments was recovered from a effectively in Usalampatti city of Madurai district in neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
The accused have been recognized as Vijaykumar, 30, his brother Ajaykumar, 28, Abhisheka, 23, Chandru, 23, Manjunath, 32, and Paramananda, 30, police mentioned.
In the course of the investigation, police busted one other gang of financial institution robbers from Kakrala within the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh who executed a number of financial institution heists in south India.
“Vijaykumar and Ajaykumar are brothers while Paramanda is the husband of their sister. All three are originally from Tamil Nadu but have had a sweets business in Nyamati for many years. The other three accused, Abhisheka, Chandru and Manjunath are from Nyamati,” police mentioned in a press release.
Initially, police concluded the involvement of the Kakrala gang within the theft.
“There are about five to six gangs of bank offenders in Kakrala and neighbouring towns who have been committing bank thefts and robberies across the country, especially in south India for the past decade, including the gold theft from the SBI branch at Rayaparathy, Warangal in November 2024,” police mentioned.
The modus operandi of the Kakrala gang had hanging similarities with the Nyamati financial institution theft because it normally focused banks surrounded by massive fields.
Additional, the entry by means of the window, utilization of fuel cutters, decamping with the DVR and utterly avoiding utilization of cellphones had been all a part of their mode of operation.
From November 2024 to February 2024, the investigation groups carried out a number of operations in troublesome terrains throughout varied states throughout India primarily Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to apprehend these gang members, police mentioned.
Primarily based on inputs from these operations, the group was profitable in apprehending 5 members of the Kakrala gang earlier this month, they added.
They had been Guddu Kalia, Aslam, Hazarath Ali, Kamruddin and Babu Sahan.
The Kakrala gang members had been absconding in a number of property offence instances in Karnataka between 2014 and 2024, notable ones being the 15 kg gold heist from Karnataka Grameen Financial institution, Hosahalli Department in November 2022 and the 4 kg gold heist from Karnataka Grameen Financial institution, Bevuru Department, police mentioned.
This was the primary time these offenders had been arrested by Karnataka Police and interrogation with these offenders led to the recent detection of varied property offences that had occurred in latest occasions in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.