Karimnagar: No breakthrough in PMJ jewellery shop burglary case

Karimnagar police have yet to make a breakthrough in tracing the PMJ jewellery showroom burglars, despite deploying special teams and sending units to Bihar and Maharashtra.

Karimnagar: Police failed to trace the whereabouts of the PMJ jewellery showroom burglars even after four days of the incident. Besides deploying special teams, a few teams have been sent to Bihar and Maharashtra states to trace the accused. However, there is no major breakthrough in the incident so far.

Though the police claimed that they responded swiftly to the incident and managed to reach the spot within minutes after the incident, there is an opinion among various sections that cops failed in effective interception.

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Interacting with reporters after the PMJ jewellery theft incident, Commissioner of Police Gaush Alam informed that they managed to reach the spot within ten minutes. The incident occurred at 11.01 am to 11.11 am. Police rushed to the spot at 11.20 am, the Commissioner said.

Anticipating vehicle checking on main roads, the miscreants chose rural routes to reach Dharmapuri where they crossed the Godavari river by leaving one of the two bikes at Mahalakshmi Pushkar Ghat. Police found the bike on Tuesday, three days after the incident. Travelling in rural routes helped them to escape from CCTV cameras and police checks.

The first visual of thieves was recorded in a CCTV camera fixed in front of a house in Rudraram of Ramadugu mandal at around 11.35 am, 24 minutes after the incident and 15 minutes after police reached the spot.

Since the location falls under Karimnagar police commissionerate limits, they might have been caught in Ramadugu itself if vehicle checking was intensified immediately in all police stations limits. However, police saw CCTV footage at night when the burglars might have crossed the state border.

Interestingly, the location where the dacoity took place is a high security zone since the residence of the Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar and district court are located very near to it. Intelligence teams could not have suspected the movements of the accused, who might have reached the area well in advance by visiting the spot a number of times.

The command control room established with high technology equipment in the town by spending huge money could not trace the movements of criminals either in advance or after the sensational crime was pulled off.

Besides using modern technology that traces old criminals who have criminal backgrounds across the country, all CCTV cameras (about 700) in the town were linked to the command control room to monitor incidents immediately.