Two miscreants involved in three robberies within half an hour from different parts of the city were nabbed by crime branch Bhopal and recovered two gold chains and motorbike used in the robberies.
Acting on a tip off, two persons who were trying to sell two gold chains at Sarafa Chowk in old city area were detained and when questioned, they confessed that the gold chains were robbed from different parts of the city on the same day just half an hour ago.
The three robberies were committed by the miscreants in Shahpura, Chunabhatti and Govindpura.The two nabbed accused were identified as Haider Hussain and Shahil Abbas alias Kalandar. Nabbed accused used to sell goggles near Hoshangabad railway station and are residents of Hoshangabad.
They would escape city and would return to Hoshangabad after the robberies. During the investigation the two nabbed accused have confessed six burglaries in the past few months.
Police said that the two were not communicating in some other language than Hindi and English and which raised suspicion over them and looked like Irani who are usually involved in criminal activities and based on the information a police team was rushed to the spot and nabbed the two miscreants.
They confessed that they planned to sell the gold chains outside their city as the jewelers of their city and nearby areas were aware of their crimes and would refuse to buy gold chains from them. They would target lone pedestrian woman and inattentive woman. Motorbike bearing registration number MP04-QJ-2939 was recovered from their possession. The accused confessed that the motorbike was used to commit robberies.