Two miscreants who robbed a 51-year-old woman at Shakti Nagar under Govindpura police station area on October 10 were nabbed by Govindpura police on Saturday.
Earlier on October 10 when the victim Radha Sakargaye was returning from her lIC office after work a white coloured Maruti car came from behind and the onboard passengers snatched purse from the victim and sped off. Shocked by the incident the victim cried for help but before anyone could help her miscreants managed to escape.
A police complaint was lodged with the Govindpura police. During the investigation based on the last digits of the vehicle registration number provided by the victim around 2600 vehicles were searched but nothing useful was found.
Taking the crime seriously the search for the miscreants was intensified which resulted in obtaining a vital clue in the case as important evidence was provided by the commuters and locals who witnessed the escape and told that BABA was written on the vehicle which was used by the miscreants.
Once again the 2,600 vehicles were searched but this time the search for was vehicle having a sticker BABA.The vehicle was traced and was owned by Pramod Dagor of Awadhpuri.
Pramod confessed committing the crime along with his friend Rajendra Sharma of Vallabh Nagar area. On his confirmation when police started searching for Sharma but he went missing and is still at large.Victim’s bag was carrying a fixed deposit document of Rs 50,000, Rs 8,000 in cash, a mobile phone and keys which have been recovered by the police.