Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (JD)
Udupi, Oct 22: Police arrested four members belonging to the infamous Irani gang from the city. The arrested are identified as Zakhir Hussain (26), Kambar Rahim Mirza (32), Akshay Sanjaya Gosavi (22), and Shaharuk Bande Nawaz Sheikh (24).
The gang would target lonely women walking on roads and threaten them claiming to be from the police department. Then they would ask them to remove their jewellery stating it was not safe due to miscreants ahead of their road and recommend keeping them in their bags, meanwhile looting them.
The gang used cars and bikes for the loot. It is said that two would arrive in a bike, loot them and then proceed towards the car parked a little further where they would change their apparels, and drive the car while those two in the car would take the bike to escape being caught or recognized by people.
The gang was already booked in Udupi town, Kundapur, Chikkamagaluru, Bantwal, and Urwa in Mangaluru and four cases were registered under Vijayapura police station limits.
The police seized 12 gram gold chain stolen from Mangaluru, a bike, a car, two helmets, and Rs 5,100 from the gang. As much as 65 gram gold which was sold in Srirampura, Ahmed Nagar, was also seized. The total value of the seized items is worth Rs 7 lac.
The team was led by SP Vishnuvardhan N, ASP Kumarachandra, DySp T R Jai Shankar, DCIB inspector Manjappa D R, DCIB ASI Ravichandra, and ASI DCIB staffs Ramu Hegde, Chandra Shetty, Santhosh Kunder, Suresh, Raghavendra Uppunda, Rajkumar, Dayanand Prabhu, Shivanand Poojary, and Raghavendra were part of the team.
The sold ornaments were seized by Saktivelu, Udupi town PSI, Sadashiva Gavaroji, Kundapur PSI, and staffs Riyaz, Lokesh, Sudhakar, ASI Kundapur Santhosh and Manjunath were part of the team.