Kartavya chapter 6: Who committed the thievery?

 Kartavya chapter 6: 

Who committed the thievery?

      Many criminals dream of deadly attacks and robberies to terrorize in broad daylight. Aravalli police has set many examples of capturing such criminals, squashing their malicious intentions and teaching them appropriate lesson.

        This is about one of such a robbery incident that occurred in broad daylight on a desolated road in a village near Shamala. That is a tribal area. The people of tribal community live there by building kutcha pucca houses scattered on hills. Private finance companies provide many loan and saving schemes in this area and the employees regularly visit them to get the instalments.

        It was the afternoon of 9th December, 2022. Few employees of such a private financial company were passing on bike through a desolated road after collecting the amount obtained out of loan and saving schemes in the villages near Shamala. They didn’t have even the slightest idea about being kept an eye on with the purpose of theft. It was during noon and the area was unpeopled. While they were passing by suddenly someone stopped them and hit hard with a thick blunt wooden stick. They fell down from the bike and cried for help but in vain, their voice echoed in the surrounding hills. The robbers despoiled the bag full of rupees and disappeared in the nearby hills.

They looted about two and half lakh rupees. The employees were badly injured. What had happened just in a few moments was beyond their understanding. They were brought to a nearby hospital for treatment. There was no possibility of catching their assailant and recovering the loot as it was intrigued in a deserted area. However, a complaint of robbery was filed.

The afternoon had put the police in action mode. It was necessary to take the culprits into custody before their intentions got too high. LCB PI K D Gohil took over the reins of the investigations. The fellow officers joined him. 

As it had betided in a derelict area, no CCTV footage or any other link was available. Therefore, it was a bit complicated to solve the case. The investigating officers were highly experienced in this sort of work. Human intelligence and technical surveillance were put to work and habitual offenders and suspicious crooks were kept under constant watch. Keeping the complainants with them, the CCTV footages of CCTV installed in nearby villages were checked.

The investigation was still in progress, but as days had passed, the burglars were now on the loose and the police were actively pursuing the case. The LCB teams received information from their private informers that the four criminals were coming from Rajasthan to Gujarat on a bike without number plates through the jungles.

Based on the information, the area was cordoned off and at 12:30 pm, according to the information, four ISMOs were passing by with bikes without number plates, police cordoned off and arrested the four criminals. At the result of intensive interrogation, they confessed to the crime of committing the robbery. After mutilating these four malefactors, goods worth approximately two lakhs were seized from them. 

The police not only solved the loot case carried out in deserted area, but was also did a commendable job of solving vehicle theft cases 

The district police chief says, “No matter how much technology comes along, basic policing relies on an intensive network of informants. Many such incidents occur where technical help doesn’t seem to work. Then police keep on working for months and years on a single case. This loot case was one such complicated case. Only on the basis of the public's trust in the police did the informer convey the accurate information of the accused to the police. As the district police, it is our duty to inculcate the same trust of the citizens.” 

The crime-solving success graph of Aravalli District Police has been steadily rising. The district police have created a positive atmosphere by doing effective work to instil confidence in the hearts of the common people towards Khaki and keep criminals at bay.

©️ Translated into English by Pallavi Gupta 🌷