Pramesh Jain
This is the history and Jackpot for Bengaluru city police first time a huge recovery has been done by one accused in one single case and huge booty is recovered.
In its first of its kind in the history of Bengaluru city police a biggest recovery has been done by Southeast Division police in which they have nabbed the notorious kingpin and recovered Rs.5 Crore worth of 12 kg of Gold,Diamond and Platinum ornaments with the vehicle used in committing crime has also been recovered from him.
The Lalithaa Jewellery heist in Trichy early this month had taken many by surprise.
The jewellery store situated near the busy Chathiram bus stand in Trichy.However it wasn’t safe.
Two people wearing masks had managed to loot and scoot with nearly 24kgs of jewels.
The burglars has looted jewels worth 13 Crore rupees from Lalitha jewellery.
Trichy police had caught Suresh and Ganesan based on the similarities between the two crimes.
Masked men had looted the Punjab National Bank at Bikshandarkoil in Trichy early this year.
Murugan had taken the lion’s share in the Lalithaa jewellery heist.
Murugan had surrendered before the Mayo Hall court in Bengaluru on 12th.
The Bengaluru city police recovered 12 kgs of gold,diamond and platinum ornaments from Murugan.
There were striking similarities between PNB loot and Lalitha jewellery heist.
Murugan hid jewels inside a dense forest in a small village called Venganur in Perambalur.
The Tamilnadu and Karnataka police have nabbed the culprits in the case.
Murugan has more than 90 cases pending against him across Karnataka,Tamilnadu,and Andhra Pradesh.
Murugan is currently in the custody of Bommanahalli police station in Bengaluru.
Suresh and Ganesan are in the custody of Trichy police.
45-year old Murugan his relatives Suresh and Ganesan were the accused in the case.
The Southeast Division police of Bommanahalli police have arrested a notorious dreaded criminal a professional thief who is a habitual offender and recovered stolen property around 12 kg of Gold,Diamond and Platinum ornaments worth of Rs 5 Crore.
The accused has been identified as,Murugan alias,Balamurugan,Shivakumar,Shiva,45,year old resident of Tiruchirapalli in Trichy.
Trichy city police told media persons that the recovered jewellery will be submitted to Trichy court after being produced at the Bengaluru court.Trichy police had already recovered 4.750 kg of gold jewellery worth Rs 1.76 crore from E Manikandan of Madapuram and P Kanagavalli of Seera Thoppu in Tiruvarur after arresting them on October 5.Kanakavalli is the sister of Murugan while her son P Suresh who escaped from police during a vehicle check on October 3 in Tiruvarur surrendered at Chengam court in Tiruvannamalai on October 10.He has been remanded in Trichy central prison.Trichy police will take both Murugan and Suresh into custody for investigations to recover the rest of the 30 kg jewellery.
Investigating officer told media persons that, Accused Murugan is a inter-State dreaded criminal who had hid the jewels in a plastic bag inside a dense forest near the banks of cauvery river in Trichy he took about 15 minutes to find the spot when we took him there for recovery we had taken Goldsmith’s and eye-witnesses from Bengaluru at that time of recovery.He dug the ground and gave us the bag that had jewels.Murugan had two other accomplices Suresh and Ganesh they are his relatives they were caught by the police after the Lalithaa jewellery heist the police had caught them and recovered whatever they had Murugan was staying in Trichy while they were nabbed we had found out through the CCTV footage of another robbery when all the three of them had travelled in an i10 car with that information we were sure that they were the criminals.He is a habitual offender and he is a professional robber this time he taught of getting settled he even wanted to do a film and most of his money he spent is on heroines and junior artists and in prostitution he has befriended a junior artist in kollywood and most of the money he has spent in constructing house and buying cars and his addiction of going to Pub and dance bars and was leaving a lavish lifestyle,a team of cops took him under confidence by telling you will still be alive for more 10 years as he has more health issues and it was very necessary for us to make him spill out about the heist where he has kept as he spilled that he has dig a pit and stored it in a hole in a dense forest near the banks of cauvery river.He even said he has planned to loot this jewellery shop three months advance from three months he was planning to loot and this operation was carried in three days it took them 3 days to loot as they drilled the wall of the shop from the gas cutter and gained the entry into the jewellery shop and Murugan was waiting outside the showroom he sent Ganesh and Suresh by tieing a rope in their legs as if anyone comes he can alert them by pulling the rope and with this the masked men entered the showroom and looted the huge booty and then escaped the Trichy police acting on tip off nabbed three person but the main kingpin mastermind accused Murugan was caught and we secured him and recovered the huge booty of jewels from him he added.
Bhaskar Rao,Bengaluru city police commissioner,said,In inter-state matters there will be lots of complications also.Property recovery is risky job extremely risky job if it becomes success we can appreciate if something went wrong then we will be investigating as who has shown negligency in recovery so they have done a commendable job even Home Minister of karnataka Basavaraj Bommai and DG&IGP of karnataka Neelamani N Raju has also appreciated them as a police commissioner I have also appreciated them and we are going to give them good rewards for whatever the good work they have done and this is a very appreciable work they have done and recently we have conducted property parade in other divisions and after which we have returned the same property to the victims by seeking court permission which will help in build up public confidence.But I can only tell you that offence detection is easy and after detecting crimes we should recover the stolen property then produce it to court and after seeking permission from the court we return the property to actual owner which is a very very risky job very very tuf job and any mistakes that takes place here is a very very expensive mistake and at that time no one can spare or rescue them and we only have to stand by them if their efforts are genuine.in Many cases many accused will try to put blame on them by trying to offer them some gifts to settle the matter and with this the accused will blame them in this situation also they have recovered the intact property it is a great challenging job it is a good example of our integrity also their hard work their dedication and they face lot of problems from language barrier recovering the gold as their procedures will be same and they will be thinking why they should not recover and all these all challenges they have faced and brought the intact property of 12 kgs of Gold,Diamonds as well as platinum ornaments this is a biggest recovery which a Bengaluru city police have done so we will be handovering the property to the court along with the offender and the Trichnapali police will get property released and I announce a reward of Rs.2 lakhs to the whole team for their immense efforts and exemplary work done in recovering the property he added.
DCP Southeast,Isha Pant said a team under the supervision of ACP MicoLayout Karibasavana Gowda,Bommanahalli Inspector D.R.Nagaraj and his team who was in search of offenders one team got a vital clues about the accused after analysing CCTV footage the team got credible information about the offender who is a notorious habitual offender who was arrested earlier by Bengaluru city police and was released on bail and then also he continued the same as the team was checking the CCTV footage at the crime scene in HSR layout and Bommanahalli the team gathered evidence and a team was sent to Tamilnadu and search of offender at the same team collected information about Robbery took place as the team was on search the team noticed this accused Murugan the team kept a close watch on him and were behind him as the accused reached Bengaluru in Mayo Hall court to surrender before surrendering as our team was tipped and one team was behind him alerted the court constable about the developments and the same information was passed to senior officers who asked them to secure him before getting produced as soon as he reached to Mayo hall court the court constable Ramachandra was alert at the court and secured him and the inspector and his team rushed to Mayo hall court the team even carried a laptop with them to prepare the arrest procedure to take him in their custody after finishing all the formalities the court sent him to police custody and during the course of investigation the team grilled him who spilled the beans and based on his statement a team headed by Inspector D.R.Nagaraj and his crime team escorted the accused to Perambalur in Trichy to recover the property as the team reached the spot for sometime he was searching the place where he is digged up after identifying it along with Goldsmith’s and eye witnesses we have recovered the 12 Kg of Gold,Diamond and Platinum from the pit where he has stored and based on his statement the cops have recovered intact property from them she even said the team has done major recovery which is one of the biggest case in 1 case and 1 accused in case there is one inter-State criminal by name Murugan he has been arrested by Bommanahalli police and around 12 Kgs Gold,Diamond,and platinum jewellery has been recovered from him.So he has committed this type of crime in various states like Andhra,Tamilnadu and Karnataka.So in this particular case he did a huge Robbery in one of the Jewellery shop in Trichy called Lalithaa jewellers so from him we have recovered 12 kg of intact Jewellery and the recovery was done in quite a movie like passion were he had dug a pit and he had put all the jewellery inside that pit and Bommanahalli police team led by Inspector and his whole team recovered the ornaments intact,and he has almost lot of cases against him in all these three states and he has also done a major robbery in Punjab National Bank in Trichy and in HSR Layout police station of southeast division and Bommanahalli police station so like this he has committed lot of crimes and we have recovered these 12kgs and he is in our police custody and we will be recovering more from him when asked does he alone commits this offence Isha Pant said,actually he has two of his associates Suresh and Ganesh,in which Suresh is his Sister son and Ganesh is also his relative so three of them they come from Trichy in car in i10 or Tavera and they do such crimes and they go back to Tamilnadu so basically he is from Tamilnadu and he is in Trichy.He has a lot of health issues however he hasn’t stopped his criminal activities.He does not indulge in small crimes he goes after the big ones he travels in cars like i10 and Tavera he has even built a big house in Trichy.Robbery is his profession.The Lalithaa jewellers owner and manger must provide documents to prove that the ornaments belong to them only then can we confirm and return the ornaments we still have a lot to recover we have to follow up with the receivers and recover them he has been involved in several crimes in the past and hence we cannot provide more details about the other cases as of now and we will seek body warrant of other accused from the Court and finally,Home Minister of karnataka,Basavaraj Bommai,DG&IGP of Karnataka,Neelamani N Raju,has appreciated,Police Commissioner, Bhaskar Rao,Addl CP East,S Murugan,DCP,Southeast,Isha Pant,ACP Mico-layout Sub-Division ,kari basavana Gowda,Bommanahalli,PI,D.R.Nagaraj,PSI, Shivappa,ASI,Shivashankar,crime staff as,Ramachandra,Ramalingegowda,Chikkavenkatashetty,Jayprakash,Ramesh,Raghu and others have done a tremendous and exemplary work who has successfully nabbed the notorious dreaded criminal a professional Robber and recovered intact property of 12 kg ornaments worth Rs.5 Crore and the team has arrested the kingpin Murugan and his associates were arrested by Tamilnadu police and with this the Lalithaa Jewellery case has been detected by our team and a reward of Rs. 2 lakh will be given to the team by the Bengaluru Police Commissioner’s office and other suitable reward will be given by the government,she added.
