Bhopal

Habibganj police nab two members of interstate gang of robbers

Staff Reporter

Habibganj police have arrested two members of an interstate gang of robbers who have robbed Rs 20 lakh from the victim on May 17, police have recovered    Rs 12 lakh from bank accounts.

Batulla Mahesha (33) and Chinnam Krishna (29) were arrested who robbed Kishan Patel of Rs 20 lakh carried in a bag. The victim was robbed in a car bearing registration number TS07JN5340.

Based on the complaint hotels around Habibganj police station area were checked and it was found that the accused were found to be from Hyderabad. On the basis of footage and technical analysis on the basis of the above information, on receipt of information about the accused coming to Bhopal again on May 26 and since then continuously present in the cities of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

The accused were tracked near Sonkachh toll-plaza who were brought to Habibganj police station for questioning where they confessed robbery along with his four other accomplices Anil, Shekhar, Satish and Pradeep.

Accused Chinnam Krishna transferred an amount of Rs. 10 lakhs to his bank account and Rs. 2 lakhs to other accounts through Satta Betting App to buy agricultural land from the looted amount, which was seized through the bank account.  The remaining amount is said to be with 4 other absconding accused.

Modus operandi the nabbed accused confessed that they along with their other gang members had deposited a small amount of Satta Betting App's I.D. Bets were placed on the game after receiving the password. After this, the ID of playing satta through the help desk of the app. When asked to increase the limit from Rs 10 to Rs 20 lakh rupees, the help desk refused to deposit a large amount in the account, where did he go to send cash through hawala and the number of the hawala merchant was made available to the accused on the app.

On this, the accused would contact the number of the hawala businessman and called the hawala businessman on the pretext of giving Rs 10 to Rs 20 lakhs and rob of cash and in the absence of cash, threatened him and used to cheat by getting the amount cleared, due to which the amount was transferred from the gaming app to the batting ID of the accused.