Pramesh S Jain & Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
The West Division police of Kengeri police cracked the robbery case and arrested a gang of six including 27 year old kingpin woman who played the role in the robbery plot.
The accused have been identified as Dominic,27, Meghana,27,the mastermind of the plot and her associates,Raju,Suresh,Padam and vinod. L
Laxman B Nimbar
gi,DCP,West division,told the reporters,on 9th July a city based astrologer house was burgled by unknown miscreants in Kengeri and the miscreants took away gold and silver including cash from his house.The miscreants tied his hands and legs and fled away with valuables worth Rs.22.5 lakhs.
A complaint was filed by Astrologer based on the complaint PI,Kengeri and other senior officials visited the crime spot and after inspecting the spot a special team was formed under the supervision of ACP,Kengeri Sub-Division,T Kodandarama,a team headed by PI,Vasanth C and his crime staff swung into action.
The team headed by PI,Vasanth C collected information about the incident from Astrologer Pramod who said that from past few days his devotee and who used to work with him was asking for loan of five lakhs but he was giving reason as she was about to start a new life as wanted for her marriage as she was a divorcee.
During investigation the team got to know while commiting offence a devotee who was close with Astrologer was at home only when the theft took place and she was not harmed which led them suspecious.
The team checked her background and kept a close watch on her and followed her all movements and with the technical inputs and other technology skills the team zeroed in on the women identified as Meghana.
After questioning the team grilled the suspect and a detailed questioning led the women to confessed the crime and based on her statement the team arrested rest five persons and recovered the robbed valuables .
The accused Meghana who runs a women self help group,became close to the astrologer Pramod Shastry and tried to woo him to get money.
When Pramod refused to help,Meghana hatched a plan to rob him.As per the plan the accused barged into the house when Meghana was with Shastry.
With the arrest of six member gang including women a kingpin who hatched a plot has been arrested and stolen valuables worth Rs.22.5 lakhs has been recovered from them and all the accused have been booked under robbery and remanded to judicial custody.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner C H Pratap Reddy has appreciated Addl CP West Sandeep Patil DCP West,Laxman B Nimbargi, ACP,T Kodandarama,PI,Vasanth C,PSIs,as, Rajashekhar,Nagaraj N,Ms.Ambika,Byrappa KS,Siddappa Kenganavar,Ms.Vidhya MV,Smt.Anitha Lakshmi,Murali,Probationary PSI,Ms.Vidyashree Uppar,ASIs,Janardhan,and crime staff as, Venkataramanappa,Ramesh,Shivhucchaiah,and crime staff as,Govindaraju,Shivakumar, Manjunath N,Venkatesh,Basavaraju,Jayanna,Ravi PL,Hanumanthappa,Siddarudh Byagi,Shravan Kumar,Ms.Indrani and Nagaveni has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them in nabbing the six member gang and the kingpin and recovered stolen property from them a suitable reward will be given to whole team for their excellent investigation he added.
