A team of Badgonda police station of Mhow tehsil arrested the dacoit who had snatched an INSAS rifle from a policeman of Badgonda and fled away in the night with other dacoits.
It is to be noted that few days back a group of dacoits forced enter in a private building in Signal Vihar Colony area, Mhow but as the family members of the building got cautious and the guard of the private building also alerted the police patrol team. The dacoits fled away from the Signal Vihar area and crossed the Gambhir river but they were challenged by the policeman of the Badgonda police station but dacoits opened fires at the policeman and overpowered him, as they were several in number and snatched his INSAS rifle and fled away taking advantage of darkness.
On the instructions of I G Indore Rural zone Rakesh Gupta and guidance of DIG Indore Rural zone Chandrasekhar Solanki, a team of policeman of four different districts including Indore rural S P Bhagwat Singh Birde, Dhar S P Aditya Pratap Singh, Jhabua and Alirajpur were formed. The team lead by Mhow ASP Puneet Gehlot arrested Akesh alias Akesh son of Arjun Baghel age 20 years resident of Kadwal police station Bori in Alirajpur district in the sudden trap at pipelderiya forest area of Alirajpur.
The accused Akesh disclosed the entire story of dacoity with his friends Somala, Kalam, Raju and Mukesh. The police team also recovered the INSAS rifle which was snatched from the policeman. The accused Akesh is on police remand till 24 January and the police team is searching the other dacoits who were involved in dacoity. SDOPMhowVinod Sharma, TIBadgonda Amit Kumar, TI Kishanganj Arun Solanki, T IMhow Kuldeep Khatri and sub inspector Ajab Singh Yadav, sub inspector Gulab Singh Rawat, sub inspector Ashik Hussain of Badgonda police station were the part of the trap team.