This story is from June 26, 2020

Pune cops chase, nab interstate gang of truck robbers

The Pune rural police, after a high-octane chase, arrested a seven-member gang from Madhya Pradesh for robbing a truck loaded with cigarettes worth Rs4.51 crore.
Pune cops chase, nab interstate gang of truck robbers
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PUNE: The Pune rural police, after a high-octane chase, arrested a seven-member gang from Madhya Pradesh for robbing a truck loaded with cigarettes worth Rs4.51 crore.
The incident occurred on the Supa-Shirur Road, about 90km from Pune, late on Wednesday. The cops have arrested the seven men — all residents of Dewas in MP and also recovered the consignment of cigarettes and two trucks, stolen earlier in the day.

A team comprising senior inspector Padmakar Ghanwat, assistant inspector Dattatray Gund, sub-inspector Amol Gore, and a few constables from the local crime branch were patrolling the Solapur highway, when they spotted a truck speeding on the Chowfula-Shirur Road, near Supa. The police noticed that the truck did not have a rear number plate and decided to check the vehicle. But as they attempted to flag the driver down, he started speeding away.
The patrol vans gave chase — the truck kept heading towards Shirur, police said.
When truck then joined the Pune-Ahmednagar highway, police teams sent an alert to inspector Pravin Khanapure of Shirur police station. In the meantime, the team noticed two trucks speeding in tandem on the highway. Following this, police blocked vehicular movement on the highway.
According to senior inspector Ghanwat, on spotting the blockage, one truck driver crashed into the road barrier in an attempt to jump the blockade, but instead, the truck got stuck. The other truck, meanwhile, drove into nearby fields and also managed to get the vehicle stuck.

The occupants of the truck jumped out of the vehicles and ran into the sugar cane fields, Ghanwat said. Teams of police combed the area and arrested seven men.
Police recovered crates of cigarettes, two trucks, a fake revolver, duplicate vehicle number plates and sharp weapons.
Ghanwat said that the consignment belonged to a private company, which has a manufacturing unit in Tembhurni.Police said the suspects waylaid the truck and hijacked it. After travelling few kilometres, the suspects dumped the driver at an isolated spot and started driving the truck towards Ahmednagar.
Ghanwat said the gang had earlier robbed a truck carrying medicines worth Rs6.5 crore in Vadgaon Nimbalkar. “They had executed robberies in Karnataka, Telangana, Haryana, Delhi and Odisha,” police said.
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