Crime Branch Police on Sunday arrested six accused of a petrol pump robbery case which took place at Rasni under Arang police station jurisdiction on intervening night of December 10-11.
Addressing the media persons here, the newly-appointed Superintendent of Police, Raipur, Amresh Mishra claimed cracking the robbery case which had footprints in five States- Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Jharkhand.
The arrests were made with the help of Jharkhand Police as majority of the accused were residents of Jharkhand state.
Rs Rs All the six accused, who are driver and cleaner of heavy vehicle by profession, were used to execute robbery in the petrol pumps,’’ Mishra informed. The kingpin of the gang is Muslim Ansari, S/O Asgar Ansari, 28, Deodhar Jharkhand and around 20-30 people work with him as assistants.
Police said the remaining accused had been identified as Afroj Alam alias Kutela S/O Jamal Ansari, 26, Deodhar, Jharkhand, Alam Ansari alias Alakh, S/O Hanif Ansari, 21, Deodhar Jharkhand, Saddam Ansari S/O Sahruddin Ansari, 24 Deodhar, Jharkhand, Shekh Sagar S/O Sahul Shekh 18, Bankura West Bengal and Aftab Alam S/O Shoeb Miya 26 Deodhar, Jharkhand.
“The CCTV footage was crucial for us to identify one of the accused who was later arrested from Deodhar”, Mishra said.
Police got a tip off from the arrested accused that the members of their gang were going to rob one more petrol pump in Maharashtra.
The police succeeded in nabbing the rest of five accused who were on the way to Maharashtra at Highway near Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, he informed.