Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)
Kundapur, May 13: Relating to the nabbing of the main accused relating to the robbery of Bijoor branch of Kambadakone Farmers Service Cooperative Bank recently, western range inspector general of police Gopal Hosur announced at Kumta on Tuesday May 12, that assistant sub inspector of Kumta police station Chandrashekhar Naik will be given a cash reward of Rs 20,000 and his name would be recommended for the chief minister's gold medal. He described Naik as a hero.
He informed that three persons have so far been arrested in the case and gold ornaments weighting 11.222 kg, Rs 15,000 in cash, two mobile phones, ATM card and keys have been recovered from them. Bank president Prakashchandra Shetty who was present at the press conference said that the Bank will reward the police officer with a sum of one lac rupees as announced earlier, at a function to be held later at Udupi.
Detailed Plan: The police team functioning under the leadership of Kundapur deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Shashidhar and Jayant Shetty, DySP from Udupi has taken the accused into custody. The team has extracted more details about the robbery.
It is learnt, Sanjeev Chaya Nayak, main accused in the robbery, had been planning for the said robbery since about the last three months. He is a transport operator, owning Beligere Transport, Ankola. He knows some people in Uppunda near here and had hired a house in Kambadakone for some time, two years ago. During his stay here, he had visited the bank several times.
On the night of April 23 this year, after midnight, he had parked the Tata Sumo vehicle in a factory premises in Bijoor Kanchikanu, before breaking open the shutters of the bank. After the chest was taken into possession, the robbers made efforts for four long hours to open it there. Upon failing to do so, they decided to take the chest with them as it was nearing dawn, and loaded the chest onto the Tata Sumo vehicle. As the chest was big and the vehicle could not accommodate the chest, the door of the vehicle was protruding outside. To close the door, he reversed and hit the rear of the vehicle to a tree thrice.
After transporting the chest to a rented house in Kundapur Barekattu, the chest was kept covered under a tarpaulin. After working hard for six days, he could open the chest. All the activities were conducted at night. Sanjeev Nayak reportedly took the gold ornaments to Kumta along with another accomplice named Durgappa(45) from Kundapur. When the policemen caught Nayak, Durgappa escaped.
Out of Nayak's six brothers, one is an official of the local irrigation department, one more works in a bank while another is in the police department. Reportedly, he had handed over an ornament to his brother working in the irrigation department to raise a loan against, to tide over temporary economic crisis. The policemen believe, J C Nayak, brother of the accused, working in irrigation department had provided tacit support to his brother in the said acts. The policemen are likely to arrest him shortly.