This story is from September 11, 2020

Four from UP held for daylight armed robbery at jewellery shop in Bharuch

Four from UP held for daylight armed robbery at jewellery shop in Bharuch
Surat: The Bharuch police on Thursday arrested four persons involved in the sensational daylight robbery that took place on September 7 at a jewellery shop located in Panch Batti in Bharuch town.
According to the police, the robbers hail from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and were residing in Surat. Ashish Pandey, who planned the robbery, is a textile engineer and working in a textile unit located in Surat’s Udhana area.

Bharuch police have recovered the entire stolen booty of 27 gold chains worth Rs 27.46 lakh, five mobile phones worth Rs 25,000 and a wrist watch worth Rs 1,000 from the robbers.
Four robbers, who had come on two motorcycles, had targeted Ambica Jewellers located at Navdeep complex. Two of them entered the shop posing as customer and then looted gold chains branding a pistol. Nikhil Soni, owner of Ambica Jewellers was shot at in the abdomen.
In the ensuing melee, Mahesh Soni, owner of the adjacent jewellery shop rushed to save Nikhil and the robbers fired at him as well, injuring his finger. Police stated that the accused were identified as Ashish Ramdev Pandey, Ajaykumar Pandey, Suraj Yadav and Rinku Yadav—all resident of Sachin in Surat and hailing from Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh.
Police said that after the robbery the accused drove in different directions towards Palej and Dahej in Bharuch. Two robbers then boarded the Avadh Express from Surat railway station and that the other two boarded bus towards UP’s Jaunpur.
The railway police team at Ankleshwar railway station was alerted and that the robbers were arrested from the train and the other two were nabbed from the transport bus in Surat itself.
SP Bharuch, Rajendrasinh Chudasama said, “The robbers are closely acquainted and three of them are involved in the crimes including illegal weapon trading, chain snatching in Jaunpur district in UP.”
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