The loot was masterminded by Bittu Shamsheria, a BJYM member, and his gang. The arrested accused include the mastermind and two brothers
Nagpur: Cracking the filmy style robbery of a bullion trader within 24 hours, cops nabbed six accused including the mastermind and two brothers on Sunday.
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Saturday 28 Dec. 2024
The bullion trader Ketan Batukbhai Kamdar (48), a resident of Mangalam Society, Ganeshpeth, was robbed by the gang of 500 grams of gold and 3 kg of silver ornaments by stabbing him six times on Pachpaoli bridge in the city on Saturday.
The filmy style robbery was allegedly masterminded by Bittu Shamsheria, a Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) member. According to police, the accused Bittu and his gang were following Kamdar for more than one month and planning to loot him. The arrested accused, two brothers, were staffers of Gurudev Jewellers. The staffers of the jewellers had given the tip-off to the robbers after which they started following Ketan Kamdar on Saturday.
Police further claimed that Kamdar was going to sell the ornaments to the jewellers on their requests. He used to visit the jewellery shops with a worker. However, the worker was on leave on Saturday when Kamdar visited Gurudev Jewellers. The staffers of the shop alerted the robbers about Kamdar’s visits. Within minutes, the gang came to Kamal Chowk on a motorcycle. They took the two-wheeler of a neighbour of the aunt of one of the accused. The goons started following Kamdar from Kamal Chowk and stopped him on the Pachpaoli bridge where they threw chilli powder in his eyes. After stabbing Kamdar multiple times, the robbers sped away with his scooter as the bag containing gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 22 lakh were kept in the dickey.
During investigation of the case, the police seized CCTV footage of the jewellery shops visited by Kamdar just before the robbery. In the footage of Gurudev Jewellers, the police suspected behaviour of the staffers and rounded up them for questioning on Saturday at around 9.30 pm. The staffers confessed to helping the criminals in committing the crime and also revealed their names.
According to police, Bittu and his two accomplices were on the run with cops trailing them on the basis of their cell phone towers locations. New Kamptee Police and Crime Branch focused on the area near Yerkheda after their locations were traced in the area. The accused were spotted by New Kamptee police and succeeded in rounding them up.
