Parmesh S Jain
The Sanjaynagar police busted a armed robbery case of a elderly home alone woman and arrested a 35-year-old dismissed lecturer who robbed the gold valuables at knife point on last Monday to arrange money for gambling.
The accused Suresh Patil,an MBA graduate and rank holder from Davanagere used to work as lecturer at a private college in Rajajinagar in 2021.
The accused was addicted to vices and cricket gambling and misused the college funds for the betting and lost.
Based on the complaint from the management, Suresh Patil was arrested and remanded to judicial custody.
After getting out on bail, Patil,joined another college in Hebbal but the management terminated his services after coming to know about his criminal background.
With no job and gambling addiction Patil hatched plans to commit robberies targeting senior citizens for quick money.
He went around identifying gullible people and kept a watch on the victim living alone.The accused had also stolen a bike from Jalahalli a month ago to use it for the robbery.
As per the plan,he barged into the house wearing a full face helmet armed with knife,assaulted the victim and robbed her gold chain worth Rs.2.5 lakh.
Based on the complaint,a team of police led by Inspector,Guruprasad A,formed a special team and analyzed several CCTV footage and also recovered a finger print from the scene of crime .
The finger print later matched with the accused recorded prints during his earlier case in Rajajinagar.
The accused was arrested and the gold valuables which he had pawned was recovered.With his arrest the police have cracked a robbery case in Sanjaynagar and a bike theft case reported in Jalahalli .
The accused was booked under robbery and attempt to murder and remanded to judicial custody.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,CH Pratap Reddy has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP North,Vinayak Patil,ACP,Manoj Kumar M E,PI,Guruprasad A,PSIs,as,Girish Nayak,Harish Kumar,crime staff as,C Vijay,Praveen,Suresh, Chandrashekharaiah,Arun Kumar, Pradeep, Mallappa Kadali,Avinash and others has been appreciated for the exemplary and excellent work done by them in nabbing the notorious HBT offender and landing him behind bars a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.
