Yogesh K Porwar & Avanth Kumar Kankariya
The KS Layout police have arrested a 27-year-old owner of a paying guest accommodation and his two associates including a city based advocate and engineering student for robbing two of their acquaintances to make quick money.
In a span of two months they robbed a civil engineer and another Paying Guest facility owner.The accused had even bought SIM cards using fake identities .
However a missed call by the accused to the SIM card seller helped the police to track down the accused and recovered the valuables .
A senior official who led the investigations said that the prime accused identified as Swaroop owned a Paying guest accommodation and was caught in a debt trap.
He roped in his friends Atmananda Jambagi,27,an engineering graduate and advocate by profession and Shaleem Raja,21,a final year student and chalked out a plan.
As per the plan they targeted Muralidhar,civil engineer and a resident of teachers colony in Ks Layout,who is known to Swaroop.
Since Muralidhar was close to Swaroop he used to discuss the family issues which Swaroop used it for his benefits.
Swaroop sent his associates to Muralidhar on the pretext of visa verification and asked for the IDs.While Muralidhar went inside the house to get the documents, the accused barged into the house,tied his hands and legs,gagged him before robbing the 45 grams of valuables and cash of 1 lakh on April 10.
The accused who had directed the robbery offered his sympathies help the victims and the police in their investigations .
While the police were probing the case, the accused targeted Anil Shetty,another Paying guest accommodation owner .
The accused called him to Gubbalala on the pretext of selling a plot and robbed his valuables.One of the accused had even taken the keys of the house and went to his house on his bike to take away other valuables .
The police having a single clue about the mobile phone used analyzed the call for over two months before zeroing in on the accused .
The police recovered 222 grams of gold valuables and diamond ornaments,Rs.1.5 lakh worth silver articles and Rs.2.2 lakh cash altogether worth of Rs.13 lakhs recovered.
The accused confessed that he was heavily indebted and wanted to clear the loan he had borrowed.The accused had also planning to buy another property and arranging money for his project said a senior officer.
Senior officers appreciated the police team for cracking the case.
