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MAPUSA
Acting swiftly in the bank dacoity case at Verla-Canca, Mapusa police nabbed the mastermind of the case within two days, near a ground at Bambolim on Sunday evening.
Mapusa police had got a tip-off that the accused would go to Bambolim and accordingly laid a trap and arrested the accused Rajkumar alias Raju Das (33).
According to police, the accused was proceeding via bus from Margao to Panaji when a police team comprising PI Tushar Lotlikar, constable Rupesh Korgaonkar, Rajesh
MAPUSA
Acting swiftly in the bank dacoity case at Verla-Canca, Mapusa police nabbed the mastermind of the case within two days, near a ground at Bambolim on Sunday evening.
Mapusa police had got a tip-off that the accused would go to Bambolim and accordingly laid a trap and arrested the accused Rajkumar alias Raju Das (33).
According to police, the accused was proceeding via bus from Margao to Panaji when a police team comprising PI Tushar Lotlikar, constable Rupesh Korgaonkar, Rajesh
Kandolkar, Irshad Vatangi and Sunil Redkar intercepted it near the ground at Bambolim and arrested him.
Mapusa Police informed that the mastermind Raju Das along with his associates had gone to Tivim Railway station in a pickup and fled to a neighbouring state. His other associates are absconding and police have sent teams to various places.
Raju and Hira Das, who was arrested earlier, will be produced before the court for remand on Monday. The other accused Vijaykumar Das, who was injured, is undergoing medical treatment at District Hospital, Mapusa.
It may be recalled that in a daring daylight bank robbery, six persons armed with pistols, knuckle dusters and knives entered the premises of Indian Overseas Bank at Verla-Canca on Friday evening when the staff was in the process of loading the ATM with cash. When the cashier and the manager refused to cooperate, the dacoits attacked them, gathered whatever cash they could lay their hands on and some jewellery and fired in the air while trying to escape.
However, locals managed to nab two of the dacoits and after a sound thrashing handed them over to the police.
The dacoits who took the trouble to rob the Indian Overseas Bank at gunpoint left the bag with cash behind while fleeing from the wrath of the locals who had gathered in large numbers outside the bank. The police recovered a bag with Rs 11.86 lakh cash within the bank premises late Friday night.
Mapusa Police informed that the mastermind Raju Das along with his associates had gone to Tivim Railway station in a pickup and fled to a neighbouring state. His other associates are absconding and police have sent teams to various places.
Raju and Hira Das, who was arrested earlier, will be produced before the court for remand on Monday. The other accused Vijaykumar Das, who was injured, is undergoing medical treatment at District Hospital, Mapusa.
It may be recalled that in a daring daylight bank robbery, six persons armed with pistols, knuckle dusters and knives entered the premises of Indian Overseas Bank at Verla-Canca on Friday evening when the staff was in the process of loading the ATM with cash. When the cashier and the manager refused to cooperate, the dacoits attacked them, gathered whatever cash they could lay their hands on and some jewellery and fired in the air while trying to escape.
However, locals managed to nab two of the dacoits and after a sound thrashing handed them over to the police.
The dacoits who took the trouble to rob the Indian Overseas Bank at gunpoint left the bag with cash behind while fleeing from the wrath of the locals who had gathered in large numbers outside the bank. The police recovered a bag with Rs 11.86 lakh cash within the bank premises late Friday night.
