Inchara Udupi
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi
Udupi, Jan 20: The Shirva police have successfully cracked a robbery case wherein a gang of seven had threatened a family at Padubelle and decamped with gold and cash. All the seven have been arrested and the booty recovered.
The robbery had taken place at the house of Damodar Samaga at Padubelle about 15 days ago.
The police, having no concrete clue about the robbers, acted on the bits of information given by Damodar's 12-year-old son Sudesh and were successful in tracing the accused. The police kept a close watch on a few workers who had come to the house some days ago for painting and floor repair work and obtained enough hints during the initial investigations.
A special investigation team on January 17 made rounds of Katapady and Subhashnagar and found three persons lingering around supiciously. When the police questioned them, further information about the case was revealed.
The arrested are Abdul Hameed (32), Shabbir Ahmed (31), Mohammed Usman (35), Umar Farooq (23), Satish Poojary (26), Sudhir Poojary (35), and Samad Ilyas (32).
Police seized two knives, gold ornaments including chains and earrings, a silver spoon and Rs 5,000 in cash, altogether worth Rs 1,69,569. The police also recovered three bikes from the accused, and another chain weighing 20 grams that was snatched by Hameed and Shabbir from a woman at Karkala about six months ago.
Also in another case registered in Kaup police station, Mohammed Usman, Abdul Hameed and Shabbir Ahmed were accused of looting a house belonging to Rukhiya of Moodabettu. The gold ornaments stolen incident were also recovered by the police.
Accused Satish Poojary has cases lodged against him in Padubidri and Udupi police stations.
All the accused were produced in court and remanded in police custody for five days.
Under the guidance of Udupi SP, Karkala DySP Jayant V Shetty, Kaup circle inspector Shivananda S Walekar, Shirva sub-inspector K R Naik led the investiagations. ASI Tukaram, head constables Prakash, Parameshwar, Prakash, Rajesh, police constables Suresh, Sandeep Kumar, Dinesh, Dharmappa K N, Rajkumar, Sudhakar and Shashidhar were part of the investigating team.