In a major breakthrough Central Crime Branch (CCB) Raipur busted a five member Nepali thieves gang claiming that it executed 9 thefts in Raipur where in the accused hit it big with booty around Rs20 lakhs.
However, valuables worth Rs5 lakh along with gun and its live ammunition were recovered from their possession. One of the gang members is on the run, informed Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Shweta Sinha, talking with reporters on Wednesday.
The ASP said that the nabbed accused used to work as drivers and night guards in various areas. “The accused while guarding the colonies used to conduct the recce of the respective area and then identified the vacant houses before committing the thefts.” laptops, mobile phones, revolver, its 19 live rounds, handi-cam cameras, gold-silver ornaments, cash Rs45,000 and watches all worth Rs5 lakh were seized from their possession, police said.
The accused were identified as Krishna Bahadur Thapa (18), Kesar Bahadur Bhandari (24), both natives of Bhatakati Gorvet villager under Magalsain district, Nepal, Ram Bahadur (35), lakshman Bahadur (28) and Prakash Bahadur (22) trio hailing from Tikapur village of Kailasi Nepal. Krishna Bahadur, Kesar Bahadur, Prakash Bahadur and lakshman Bahadur used to live near Chandok garage Mahavir Nagar, Telibandha while, Ram Bahdur had rented a house in Sector-2 Avanti Vihar. One of their accomplices Gugun Bahdur (24) hailing from Magalsaine, Nepal is on the run.
The ASP said they were arrested from Kansiram Nagar on a tip off by the civil line beat of CCB. later during the course of interrogation they accepted of committing the theft. “Ram Bahadur was leading the gang,” ASP maintained.
Detailing about the theft cases, the ASP informed that the gang on May 7 last had entered the house of Aman-ul-Haque in Vishal Nagar and made away with cash Rs6 lakh, ornaments worth Rs2 lakh, a pistol and its 10 live rounds. Similarly they had burgled into an English wine shop in Moudhapara and took away cash Rs35,000.
In the same way the gang had committed thefts in two shops at lodhipara, a motor parts shop in Chhokara Nullah, a house in Devendra Nagar, Priyadarshani Nagar, office of an NGO in Geetanjali Nagar and a house in Basant Corner Avanti Vihar.