Daijiworld Media Network – Sullia (EP)
Sullia, Feb 20: The police personnel of Puttur sub-division have arrested five persons in connection to the armed robbery of cash and valuables that took place on January 23 in the taluk. The robbers had threatened passengers in a car by brandishing weapons and stabbed one of them.
The arrested are Avinash Jagannath Marke (35), a resident of Thane near Mumbai, Abdul Kareem(24) from Belandur, Puttur, Mohammed Hanif (33), also of Belandur, Tahir Hussain alias Anup Gowda (36), from Yelahanka, Bengaluru, and Charan Singh (24) from Madhya Pradesh. They were arrested in Belagavi.
The complainant Abdul Khader was travelling in his car with his employees Shafiq, Yasir and Basavaraj to the shop at Guthigar via Bellare-Aivarnadu-Sonangiri road. As the vehicle reached Pareppadi cross at 8 am, five unknown miscreants who were in another vehicle overtook their vehicle at Pareppadi cross and waylaid it. Three of them were brandishing weapons that looked like pistols and the fourth held a knife. They came towards the car of the victims, snatched their car key and locked their car. Another of the accused came to the rear seat of the car and snatched Rs five lac and a bag with documents, and injured one of them on the hand with the knife. He also snatched mobile phones from three of the victims and fled in the car in which the accused had arrived.
After committing the crime, the robbers had left their car near Hyundai showroom at Madikeri and travelled in another car to Bengaluru via Mysuru. The police have recovered Rs 2.90 lac, three pistols, bullets, three mobiles, a monkey cap, bag and the car in which they had fled from Madikeri.
They were produced in Vijayapura and Dharwad CJ and JMFC courts on February 16. The accused together with additional police security were taken to Aranthodu where the accused had thrown the knife used in the crime, and to Panja where they had thrown the tollgate receipts, both of which were recovered. Madikeri police have seized the car which was abandoned by the accused. The accused were produced in the court on February 18 and remanded in judicial custody for 15 days. They have been sent to Vijayapura and Dharwad prisons under tight police security.
Puttur police sub-division under the directions of the district SP formed different teams to nab the accused. The accused are suspected to have colluded with other accused, namely Gulfam, Raja alias Jattapu, and Papia alias Pappu in another criminal case under Bellare police station limits.
Investigations from different angles were conducted in the case. Canine squad and forensic experts had helped in the investigation.
Purushotham, DSP crime branch, Sullia, staff ASI Narayan Rai, head constables Narayana, Padmanabha, Radhakrishna, Devaraja, Vijayakumar, Sachin, Puneeth Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Santhosh Kumar, Gopalakrishna, Subrahmanya station police constable Ananda Naik, Keshava Manoj and driver Yajna Narayana, Hanumantha, Jnana Prakash were part of the investigations.