Surat: Dog helps police crack robbery, murder case

Acting on the complaint lodged by Mafabhair, Bharuch Local Crime Branch officers started a probe. One of the police dogs identified as Teji was taken to the spot. He took the police to a sugarcane field located nearby where the cops found empty plastic food boxes of Hotel Royal Inn and water bottles.

On checking the CCTV footage of the hotel, the police found the registration number of a tempo. On checking it, the officers found that its owner lives at Kosad in Surat city.

“The credit goes to Teji. We found one iron road used by the accused to beat the security guards from the spot. The dog smelled it and took us to a sugarcane field. We have arrested five of the accused. Efforts are on to nab the rest of them,” Bharuch Local Crime Branch police inspector J N Jala said.