With the arrest of eight persons, the Surguja district police on Sunday claimed of solving the daylight robbery that occurred in Central Bank of India branch located at Narmadapur of Mainpat town in the district. Cash amounting to Rs19 lakh was taken away on gun point from the bank on March 17, police informed. Three locals and five persons hailing from Jharkhand have been nabbed in this connection, Superintendent of Police (SP) RS Nayak informed.
The accused were identified as Shailendra Tiwari hailing from Dharamjaigarh, Anjil Dadsena, Sibal Sai from Raigarh, Rajesh Sahay, Raju Kumar Verma, Vinod Kumar Verma, Gendu Singh and Munna Pandey all natives of Jharkhand, he said. “Shailendra, Anjil and Sibal had provided local assistance to remaining five for escaping after robbing the bank,” Nayak said. We have recovered cash amounting to Rs5.41 lakh, jewellery worth Rs1 lakh, three country-made pistol of .315 bore and live rounds, he said.
Shailendra had hatched the plan and had contacted his friend Rajesh in Ranchi for committing the crime. Few days before the incident, five of them had reached Ambikapur and later performed recce of the bank in Mainpat. SIM card on fake identity were also arranged by Shailendra, Anjil and Sibal for them, the SP revealed. The major breakthrough in case was tracing of bike used in the robbery through which rest of gang was reached, Nayak said. Case of murder and loot were already registered against them in Rohtas district of Bihar, the SP informed.