Hyderabad: Special teams of the Rachakonda police on Wednesday arrested six persons, including a woman, who helped the prime accused in committing the
sensational Mahadev Jewellers armed robbery in Snehapuri, Nagole.
Those arrested had helped the prime accused in concealing the stolen
jewellery. They also arranged vehicles for them to cross the state’s border
and enter Maharashtra via Adilabad.
According to the police, on December 1, hired armed robbers, Manish, Sumeet
Dagar and Manya, entered Mahadev Jewellers. Manish and Sumeet entered the
shop while Manya and others closed the shutters and waited outside on a
scooty along with accused Sumair Choudary.
In the shop they opened three rounds of fire injuring shop owner Kalyan
Singh Choudary and jewellery designer Raj Kumar and fled with the booty.
Main conspirator Mahender Choudary had hired the four gang members from
Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi, the accused revealed during interrogation.
It was a pre-planned robbery, police said. On October 26, the three accused
had threatened a scooty rider at gunpoint and took away the vehicle along
with helmet on city outskirts in Gouraram, a police officer said.
The 10-member gang conducted a recce on the movements of Raj Kumar for one
week. They also attempted to rob him but dropped the plan as it was daytime
and many people were on the road.
After the loot, prime accused along Mahender and his wife Gudiya Jaat, hid
the booty in their house in Sangareddy and fled in an XUV towards Adilabad
and managed to enter Maharashtra border. His wife Gudya returned home on a
bus.
On the direction of Rachakonda police commissioner Mahesh M. Bhagwat 15
police teams were formed to arrest the culprits.
Breakthrough in this case came through one of the vehicle numbers, used by
the criminals, partially captured by the CCTV. With the help of IT cell and
relentless efforts the six accused were arrested, Mahesh Bhagwat said.
Kingpin of the gang, Mahender Chowdhary of Rajasthan confessed that he had
hired professional robbers to commit the crime.
Police arrested Mahender Choudary, Banshi Ram, Manish, Mohammed Feroz,
Gudiya, from Gajwel, Ramayanpet, Sangareddy and Siddipet districts.
Three kg of ornaments worth Rs 1.36 crore, Rs 2.63 lakh cash three
country-made firearms, 25 7.65 caliber live rounds, an air pistol with a box
of pellets, dagger 7.5, four two-wheelers and an SUV were recovered from
them. Six mobile phones and an additional cash of Rs 65,000 were also
seized.
Bhagwat has appealed to all jewellery shops to install a motion detector and
a scanner at their outlets. In 2018, a jewellery shop had installed a
scanner which helped foil a robbery attempt.
