Four Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in connection with robbery incident that occurred in the house of a businessman in Fafadhi area of the city. The arrested persons include the gang head, while seven people involved in the incident are on the run, Inspector General of Police (Raipur) GP Singh told reporters on Wednesday.
The arrested accused, all natives of Bangladesh, have been identified as Dilavar Shekh (35), Mohammed Ibrahim (24), Mohammed Alamin (28) and Abdul Hakim (40). They had resided in different parts of New Delhi, Singh informed.
Notably, on the intervening night of April 18 and 19 last, a gang of eight people had stormed into house of a businessman Bhavandas Ramchandani and had decamped with gold, cash and valuable worth around Rs 14 lakhs.
“During investigation we found two shirts and a pant dumped in nullah near Ramchandani’s house besides railway track,’’ the IGP said. The shirt had mark of TSQ while the pants had cigarettes which matched with the cigarette buds found in Ramchandani’s house, police claimed.
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) investigators, IGP said, found that the night robbery took place; eight people had taken one ticket each for Delhi from Raipur Railway Station. Tracing this lead and other evidences gathered from the spot a team of Raipur police was sent to Delhi.
At the national capital help of Delhi Crime Branch was sought and it was learnt that gang head Dilawar who used to live at Uttam Nagar was not in his house. Few visitors that were in his home few days back were also missing, police informed.
Police later found that Dilawar had recently shifted to Simapuri area from Uttam Nagar but was not found in his house at Simapuri. He along with two of his brothers, Alamin and Hakim was heading towards Bangladesh. The input was instantly shared with police teams and they were nabbed at Howrah station, the police revealed.
The cops then brought the accused to Raipur and kept on hammering away until the suspects divulged all details related with the incident, police claimed. They told police, seven other accomplices all natives of Bangladesh were also involved in the incident and would have escaped to Bangladesh.
The accused had also performed recce in Raigarh before committing robbery at Ramchandani’s house, police said. About 12 tola gold and cash all worth Rs 4 lakh were seized from their possession. Meanwhile IGP rewarded Rs 50,000 to the cops for cracking the case.