INDORE: In a brazen daytime attack, robbers stormed into a Gramin Bank in Neemuch MP, guns blazing, and looted Rs 71,000 in cash. Two female customers and a bank guard were hit by bullets and are in hospital.
The gunmen were in and out in 46 seconds. He is not yet known.
The bank is located in the village of Chitakheda, about 250km from Indore and on the right side of the Rajasthan border.
Neemuch SP Ankit Jaiswal said the armed men, their faces covered, arrived at 12.40 pm on a motorcycle. The men entered the bank and immediately started shooting, causing panic among the bank staff and customers.
CCTV footage shows armed men loading single bullets into single-shot ‘kattas’, and shooting people — to hit and not just to scare. The first victim, 21-year-old Jumma Bai, was shot while she was sitting on a bench, posing no threat to the robbers. A bullet pierced his thigh. Next, Mangibai, an anganwadi worker from a nearby village, was hit. CCTV footage showed one of the gunmen shooting him at point-blank range as he confronted him as he made a desperate run for safety.
Banshilal bravely grappled with one of the gunmen but was hit and fell to the floor. As panicked bank employees and customers ran for cover, the two men grabbed a box of cash and fled.
The shooting also caused panic on the streets. No one dared to challenge the armed men as they fled.
Police were on the scene within minutes. The injured woman and guard were taken to the district hospital, where their condition is stable. Banshilal suffered a head injury. According to eyewitness Ram Prahlad, husband of one of the injured women, the robbers entered the bank casually and suddenly started shooting.
MP Police posing as a surveyor for nab a robber disguised as a woman in Raj
Set ‘imposters’ to catch a gang of imposters. Police from Madhya Pradesh disguised as government surveyors went to a village in Rajasthan to arrest a group of brothers dressed as women for looting gold jewelery from the famous Hanuman Tekri temple in Guna.
It took 23 days of detective work, scanning footage from 500 CCTV cameras and some ingenuity to solve the blind cross-border crime. A jeweller, who mixed the ornaments stolen by the gang, was also arrested.
On the night of August 23-24, about a dozen people, disguised in sarees, held the two temple guards at knife point, broke into the temple and took away the idol jewelery and money from the donation box. CCTV footage shows the gang leader praying before the deity before removing his ornaments, mace and crown.
The robbery rocked the area as many worshipers flocked to the temple, about 200km from Bhopal and near the border of Rajasthan. IG Arvind Saxena set up an SIT to investigate the case. The SIT, headed by SP Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, comprises two DSPs, two TIs, an SI, a constable, and a three-member cyber team.
The first challenge is to identify the gang. The first break came after 14 days of dogged investigation. The six-second CCTV clip became very important. Six people were seen on two bikes in Cheem village, about 40km from the temple and closer to the border. Although the faces and vehicle numbers are blurred, the people in the footage fit the description of the robbers.
Using more CCTV footage and some guesswork to fill in the gaps, the police tracked down the gang and crossed the border to Rajasthan’s Kamkheda, a town known for its Balaji temple, about 100km from Hanuman Tekri but the gang took a longer route to try to outwit the police. from his path.
Despite difficulties due to CCTV cameras being switched off, the MP police managed to get information about the presence of gangs in the area.
Two police officers, Navdeep Agarwal and Rajiv Shukla, were sent undercover as economic surveyors. He plays well, gets no suspicions and gets information about the robbers, including his house.
A police team raided the house but the main suspect was missing. Police found evidence linking the family to the crime, including part of the loot, a raincoat and a saree used to disguise themselves. A woman named Shanti Bai said that her seven sons and their family had left on the night of the temple robbery. Police found some stolen silver jewelry buried in a pit behind the house.
The police team brings Shanti Bai and searches for the robber. He started driving towards Chittorgarh when he saw a family living under a tree. Shanti Bai indicated by nodding that he was her son and a member of her family. The gang also realized that the game was up and running, but the police managed to arrest two – including the leader Babulal Kalbeliya, 42. After interrogation, goldsmith Mohit Soni who melted 2kg of silver jewelery and turned it into bricks was also arrested. The search is on for the other five suspects. The police had learned that the gang had carried out a recce two weeks before the robbery.
A reward of Rs 30,000, announced by the IG for information on the robbers, will now be given to the SIT.
