In a joint effort, Piplani and Ayodhya police have nabbed two robbers and recovered robbed valuables from their possession, said Superintendent of Police Bhopal (South) Siddhartha Bahuguna while speaking with the media persons on Wednesday.
The miscreants were nabbed during vehicle checking drive by Piplani and Ayodhya Nagar police.
The two bike borne miscreants on motorbike bearing registration number MP04-NW-5586 were stopped and documents regarding the motorbike were asked the two failed to provide the documents and later confessed that the motorbike was stolen and committed two robberies.
The motorbike was stolen from Kotwali area while gold chains were robbed from Pipalni and Ayodhya Nagar areas. The miscreants were identified as Hasan Ali (27) and Abbas Ali alias Salman. Hasan is a resident of Sanjay Nagar and Abbas is a resident of Raisen.
SP Bahuguna said that the Hasan Ali was burdened with debt and debtors used to demand return of money and to settle his borrowed money he started robbery. The accomplice of Hasan, Abbas was facing the same situation and to make fast money he joined Hasan in robberies.
The two aimed to collect around 40 -50 gm of gold and escape Dharawad in Karnataka.Accused targeted old age women as they would offer very less resistance and were easy targets for chain snatching. Hasan Ali is a habitual criminal and has been booked for robberies in the past.
He lured Abbas of money and offered to accomplice in the crimes and later they started robberies.