Rachakonda Police nabs gang involved in jewelry shop dacoity at Nagole

Jewelry, firearms and vehicles used in the dacoity were seized from them.

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda police solved the jewelry shop dacoity case reported last week in Chaitanyapuri and caught a six-member interstate gang of offenders on Wednesday. Gold ornaments worth Rs.1.35 crore, three country made pistols, 25 live ammunition rounds, one air pistol, dagger, one car, six phones and cash of Rs.65,500 were recovered from the suspects.

The arrested persons were identified as Banshi Ram from Medak district, Mohd Firoz, Sumer Choudary, Gudiya Jaat and Manish Vaishnav, all four from Siddipet district and Ritesh Vaishnav, from Jangaon distict. The kingpin Mahender, a gold smith from Siddipet and Sumit Dagar, Manish and Maniya, are absconding.

Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M. Bhagwat said Mahender who runs a jewellery shop at Gajwel in Siddipet, plotted to rob gold smiths who are into supplying jewelry to various shops. “He conspired along with his wife Gudiya, brother-in-law Sumer and others. He hired Sumit, Manish and Maniya from Haryana and Rajasthan along with deadly weapons to execute the attacks,” he said.

The trio came to Ramayampet in November last week and stayed in Hyderabad and Gajwel and decided to target Raj Kumar Surana, a gold smith.

On December 3 night, Raj Kumar along with his shop assistant Sukha Ram started from their jewelry shop carrying about 3 kg gold ornaments in a bag and after selling to various jewelry shops and collecting Rs.2.6 lakh cash, reached Mahadev Jewelers at Snehapuri Colony in Kothapet.

“They were displaying the ornaments to Kalyan Chowdhary, when Sumit, Manish barged into the shop, and Manya and Sumer closed the shutter from outside and observed the surroundings,” Bhagwat said.

The assailants brandishing firearms threatened Kalyan, Raj Kumar and Sukha Ram to handover the jewelry bag. When they resisted, the former opened fire at them resulting in wounds to Kalyan and Sukha Ram. They snatched the bag and fled on the bike.

“A breakthrough in the case came through one of the crime vehicle numbers partially captured by the CCTV which was then developed by the technical team,” officials said.