This story is from September 2, 2020

Begusarai jewellery shop loot case solved, 11 arrested

The Begusarai police on Tuesday cracked a jewellery shop loot case that took place at Teghra Bazaar under the Teghra police station area of the district last Friday and recovered 3.4kg looted gold jewellery.
Begusarai jewellery shop loot case solved, 11 arrested
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BEGUSARAI: The Begusarai police on Tuesday cracked a jewellery shop loot case that took place at Teghra Bazaar under the Teghra police station area of the district last Friday and recovered 3.4kg looted gold jewellery.
SP Awkash Kumar said that a special team was formed to crack the case which conducted intensive raids and apart from recovering the looted gold also arrested 11 members of the gang including a woman.

Several motorcycle-borne armed men entered the jewellery shop in the main market area on Friday afternoon and fired indiscriminately forcing all staff to flee from the scene The armed criminals, after stashing the looted jewellery in a bag, fled from the scene. While the loot was being committed, two armed miscreants guarded the shop.
Though the owner of the shop failed to assess the exact quantity of gold looted immediately after the incident, later he lodged an FIR stating that over 2.6 kg of gold was taken away by the criminals.
According to the SP, “Based on the modus operandi of the criminals, police soon zeroed on the gang.”
“A special police team comprising Begusarai sadar SDPO Rajan Sinha, Teghra SDPO Om Prakash besides other police officers conducted intensive raids and recovered the looted jewellery and arrested the gang members. The kingpin of the gang, Ramgati alias Larha, is also a murder accused. The woman arrested is Nisha, who was entrusted with the job to hide the looted booty. Larha was an inmate of Munger remand home and had managed to esacoe from there,” Awkash added.

Apart from Larha and Nisha, others arrested are Raja Kumar, Dular Kumar, Mintu Kumar,Gulashan Kumar, Chandan Kumar, Sonu Kumar, Hippy Kumar, Manjesh Kumar and Visheshwar Kumar. Barring Visheshwar, who belongs to Lakhisarai district, all of them belong to various police stations near Teghra Bazar area in Begusarai district. The raiding team also recovered over 1.1 kg of silver, one pistol besides five country-made pistols, 15 live cartridges, 11 cell phones, one jeep and a motorcycle.
Begusarai MP and union minister Giriraj Singh congratulated the Begusarai police for cracking the case.
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