Cases of theft and loot were on the rise at National Highway (NH) number 75 passing through Datia. Keeping this in view, Datia Superintendent of Police (SP) Sanjay Kumar instructed to keep vigil on the NH, following that the police patrol team succeeded in nabbing gang of five persons involved in thefts and loots. All the accused are residents of Badoni police station area and were found roaming with arms.
Datia SP Sanjay Kumar while talking to mediapersons informed that these accused were involved in many cases of thefts besides committing thefts and loots at the highway. They were involved in stealing jewellery, cash, mobile phone, tillu pumps and other items and were so well off that they used to move on motorcycles.
All the accused including Bahadur Rawat, Ramnaresh, Monu alias Jagdish Parihar, Ravi Jatav and Chandrabbhan Jatav are residents of Datia district. The police also recovered 70 tillu pumps worth about Rs70,000, silver jewellery of about one kilogram that is worth about Rs40,000 and 10 grams of gold ornaments worth about Rs25,000.
One of the accused, Bahadur is a convicted criminal, who was sentenced for five years in Dubra petrol pump loot case while Ramnaresh Rawat is convicted criminal in murder case. He was convicted for seven years in a murder case. SP Sanjay Kumar, SDOP Bhadouriya and TI Dhawal Singh played important role in arrest of these criminals.