Two students who foiled a loot bid on Thursday at MP Nagar were rewarded with Rs 5000 by the Deputy Inspector General of Police Bhopal on Friday.
Brave Swapnil Bhargava and Shubhank Gupta faced the miscreants having a loaded gun with courage and acted swiftly to overpower a Nasrullahganj youth when he tried to escape after snatching mobile phone of Shubhank Gupta, told the DIG Sreenivasa Varma while presenting the reward money to the youths.
Earlier on Thursday at around 10.30 pm when Shubhank Gupta was showing photos to Swapnil Bhargava a youth came close and before the duo understand or sense ill intentions the youth snatched Gupta's mobile phone and tried to escape. The duo raised an alarmed which alerted Gupta's father Sunil Gupta and Uncle Ajay Gupta who came to rescue the duo and caught the miscreant. A revolver with a cartridge was recovered from the miscreant. The miscreant was later handed over to the MP Nagar police. During investigation the miscreant was identified as Rahul Pawar (20) of Narmada Colony at Nasrullahganj.
Police have confirmed that the accused were more than two as when the locals gathered when the accused was nabbed a person came and introduced himself as police personnel and told to hand over the miscreant to him but disappeared when the police arrived. One of the other miscreants was waiting on motorbike escaped the spot after the accused was nabbed, told the police.
However the police were not able to establish the identity of the other accomplices but would be nabbed during the investigation. After the incident police announced a cash reward of Rs 5000 for Swapnil and Shubhank for displaying fearless act. The reward was presented to them by the DIG on Friday at the police control room.