This story is from January 25, 2022

Patna: 4 nabbed in Bakarganj jewellery loot case

Four accused in the Bakarganj jewellery loot case were arrested from Patna and Jehanabad on Monday. Police also recovered 6.5kg gold ornaments worth Rs3.2 crore, Rs 4.32 lakh in cash and four mobile phones looted from S S Jewellers in the busy Bakarganj area at 2pm on January 21.
Patna: 4 nabbed in Bakarganj jewellery loot case
Patna SSP Manavjit Singh Dhillon told the mediapersons that all the accused in Bakarganj jewellery loot case have been arrested.
PATNA: Four accused in the Bakarganj jewellery loot case were arrested from Patna and Jehanabad on Monday. Police also recovered 6.5kg gold ornaments worth Rs3.2 crore, Rs 4.32 lakh in cash and four mobile phones looted from S S Jewellers in the busy Bakarganj area at 2pm on January 21.
The arrested accused were identified as Akash Ojha alias Sunny Kumar, a resident of Sirpatpur, Sonu Kumar of Jagganpura, Raju Kewat of Mulhchak Kutiya in Jehanabad and Nitesh Kumar from Hospital Road in Jehanabad.
One Rajesh Ram alias Sadhu was nabbed by the local shopkeepers with a bag containing around 2kg of the looted gold jewllery.
Patna SSP Manavjit Singh Dhillon told the mediapersons that all the accused in Bakarganj jewellery loot case have been arrested and the looted jewellery, cash and mobile phones were recovered. “It was Nitesh who hatched the loot conspiracy in Jehanabad. Nitesh’s father owns a jewellery shop in Jehanabad. The two had visited the SS Jewellers in November last year to buy ornaments,” he said.
Nitesh disclosed that he told his friends Raju and Rajesh about the shop. The trio visited the shop twice in January to conducted recce. Apart from Sadhu and Raju Kewat of Jehanabad, Sonu and Akash of Patna were also involved in this robbery, the SSP said.
The SSP said shopowner Sanjeev has been asked to provide invoice and stock register and income tax and GST returns of five years as he mentioned that around 35kg gold were looted from his shop.
“The accused targeted this shop because it was inside on the first floor and people could hardly notice them. It is a wholesale shop and the accused told its owner that they were planning to open a new jewellery shop. Two of the accused entered the shop and called the other two by using a code ‘Pani Pilao’. Within ten minutes, they decamped with the looted cash in one bag and jewellery and mobile phones of the employees in two other bags,” Dhillon said.

Three of them were arrested from McDowell’s roundabout after the SIT received information that Sunny with other criminals was seen in Bahadurpur, Patrakar Nagar and Kadamkuan police station areas. The SIT nabbed Sunny, Raju and Sonu and seized two countrymade pistols, two magazines and 12 live cartridges from them. On Sunny’s confession, the looted jewellery and cash were recovered from his parents' rented house under Gopalpur police station area.
Police also recovered a luxury car, which was looted by Sunny and Sonu from Kotwali police station area in October 2021. Police also recovered five motorbikes, including two used in the robbery, and one more SUV. Dhillon said around 17 cases have been registered against Sunny at different police stations. Raju is accused n 7 cases, Sonu in six and Rajesh in 3 cases.
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