The city police cracked Rs12 lakh gold jewellery robbery mystery at Jugsalai on March 1 by arresting six people including two jewellers on Wednesday.The police recovered jewellery worth Rs4.75 lakh, Rs1.78 lakh in cash, a sports bike and five cell phones from the possession of the arrested persons.Those arrested have been identified as Pervez Alam, Barun Sharma, Manoj Sao, Sanjiv Chowdhury, Manoj Burman and Raju Burman. Apart from the arrested persons, two more criminals, Mohammed Imtiaz and Mohammad Raqu were also involved in the robbery, but have managed to escape.
Talking about the breakthrough, senior superintendent of police Amol V Homkar said that the six criminals, Barun, Pervez, Manoj, Chhota Chini, Sanjiv, and Raqu was arrested on March 1 followed the Kolkata-based gold trader Mintu Karmakar from Sakchi and had finally robbed him at Jugsalai market."As per our investigation, Rahul and Pervez had snatched the bag that contained the ornaments. The rest of the four robbers were standing in separate spots for giving the support," said Homkar.
Speaking about the breakthrough, Homkar said that after an FIR was lodged by the victim, he had set up a special team led by deputy superintendent of police (law and order) BN Singh. " We got a a tip off about the involvement of Barun Sharma, who is a resident of Adityapur, in the robbery. The team picked up Barun and during the interrogation he confessed his involvement and revealed the names of rest of the five robbers," said the senior police officer.
Homkar said the robbers had sold robbed jewellery worth Rs12 lakh at Rs7.5 lakh. According to police, the criminals had been keeping an eye on the movement of Karmakar, who is a resident of Jahura Bazar lane, Kolkata from several years and committed the robbery after carrying out whereabouts of the victim.