Ramanagaram: 6th July 2022:
Channaptna Rural police have arrested 4 accused who were wanted by 9 police stations including police stations in Ramanagara District and Bengaluru city.
3 of the 4 accused are from Bengaluru City,. Mani a resident of Madanayakanahalli, Renuka Kumar from Girinagara Viji alias Vijay from Basavanagudi, Shiva alias Shivaprasad from Kukkurudoddi in Maddur Taluk are the accused.
The arrested are accused as chain snatchers. Police say they have recovered 315 grams of gold ornaments and 7 two wheelers, both worth Rupees 18 lakhs. The accused were wanted by Channapatna rural, Ramanagara Rural, Satanuru, Talaghattapura, Jnanabharathi, Chandralayout, Subrahmanyapura, Kengeri, and Girinagara police stations.
3 of the 4 accused are from Bengaluru City,. Mani a resident of Madanayakanahalli, Renuka Kumar from Girinagara Viji alias Vijay from Basavanagudi, Shiva alias Shivaprasad from Kukkurudoddi in Maddur Taluk are the accused.
The arrested are accused as chain snatchers. Police say they have recovered 315 grams of gold ornaments and 7 two wheelers, both worth Rupees 18 lakhs. The accused were wanted by Channapatna rural, Ramanagara Rural, Satanuru, Talaghattapura, Jnanabharathi, Chandralayout, Subrahmanyapura, Kengeri, and Girinagara police stations.
How were they caught?
On June 30, 2022 around 5am, all the four accused are said to be ambushing with weapons near Kengal in Channapatna Taluk. Immediately after getting this information from reliable sources, the Channapatna Rural police raided and were successful in taking all the four into their custody. The accused have revealed chain snatching and thefts during the enquiry.
Superindent of Police Ramanagara District Mr Santosh Babu in pressmeet praised CPI T.B.Shivakumar, PSI Liaquat Ulla, Basavaraju, Manohar, ASI M.Raju, Cops Venkatachaliah, Shivakumar, Mallikarjun, Chethan, Siddagangappa, Hanumantha Shetty all from Channapatna Rural Police Station for arresting the notorious chain snatchers. DySP Mr Ramesh was present in the pressmeet.
