Bajaria police have busted an eight-member gang of robbers who had captivated and robbed a woman at Power House Road on August 1 and recovered robbed valuables from their possession, said Bhopal SP (South) Sidhharth Bahuguna while speaking with media persons on Sunday.
On August 1, the victim Himani Singh was robbed after keeping her captivated. The miscreants tied her hands and gagged her, before breaking almirha which had the valuables and escaped the house.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under Section 392 and 394 of the IPC and started investigation.
In the initial investigation the CCTV footages were searched which was installed at the neighbour’s house of the victim. The first accused identified was Jagdish Chirad who got injury in his leg at the time of incident was nabbed and when questioned he confessed the crime.
Jagdish told the police that Nitesh Shakya, Vivek Batham alias Betu and Shubham Batham planned the robbery. The accused used to recce the house before 4-5 days of the incident.
He made revelation that Vivek Batham’s girlfriend Sheetal Yadav is victim’s neighbor and helped by providing the location to the victim to Vivek after victim’s husband Surendra Singh left the house.
During the investigation police found that Vinay Jogi and Sheetal Yadav were involved in the conspiring robbery and Sachin Batham and Ajay Batham kept the robbed valuables of Vivek and Shubham in motorbike and scooter bearing registration number MP04NH5369 and MP 04-SU-5189 and recovered from their vehicles and seized the vehicles.
Vinay’s role was to dispose the robbed valuable. Based on the details provided by Jagdish, Vivek, Shubham, Sheetal, Vinay were nabbed while Nitesh went absconding and search has been intensified to nab the accused.