Within 24 hours of a looting incident, the District Crime Branch sleuths rounded up two persons and claimed of solving the case in which about a total of Rs5.86 lakh including cash amounting to Rs2.86 lakh were snatched away from a person near Supela locality of Bhilai on Tuesday afternoon.
The accused after throwing chili powder in eye of the victim near Mourya Talkies had snatched the bag which contained cash Rs2.86 lakh and bank cheques, Superintendent of Police Durg, Dr Anand Chabda informed. According to the police, Rambhir Das Manikpuri who works as Collection Agent for business house Gautam Traders based in Bhilai after collecting cash was on way to JP Chowk at Garage road on his bike.
Manikpuri had to stop for checking missed call on his mobile, suddenly two persons on a white colour scooter while covering their face reached at the spot and threw chili powder on his face. Before Manikpuri could defend himself, they snatched the bag away, police said.The victim later reached a police station to seek help.
After hearing about the incident, the SP then formed a special team to solve the case. During investigation, police came to know that one of the accused Santosh Jaswani of Durg was spotted with another person in a white coloured scooter in Sector-6 area. Jaswani was nabbed and based on other evidences collected during investigation he was questioned.The sleuths kept on questioning Jaswani who then allegedly confessed of committing the crime along with one of his friends Manish Dewangan of Shankar Nagar Durg.
At their instance, the cash amount of Rs2.86 lakh, cheques of Rs1.11 lakh, Rs67,500 and Rs71,745 were recovered. The vehicle used in incident was also found. The duo was booked under Section 392 of Indian Panel Code, police said.