Ambala : The mystery of cutting 32 lockers in the co-operative bank Branch on Naraingarh Road Ambala City was solved with the arrest of four accused. The gang of six had planning to rob 58 branches of the bank in their target. The police arrested four accused including the mastermind, in the case of theft of gold jewelry and cash worth lakhs of rupees by cutting 32 lockers of the Co-operative Bank branch at Ambala. The crime was committed by six accused also in co-operative banks in Sonipat and Yamunanagar. The arrested accused admitted that Ttll now they had conducted ‘recce’ of 55 to 58 co-operative banks at places like Kaithal, Jind, Panipat, Sonipat, Karnal, Yamunanagar, Rohtak and other places and now their next target was these branches.
Before the incident in Ambala, the miscreants lived as tenants in Sonipat and Kurukshetra and later in Patna Sahib, Kharagpur, Kolkata etc. The connections of the miscreants are linked to Bihar and West Bengal. The accused had committed the crime in Ambala in the last week of September. There were 180 lockers in the bank branch in Ambala, out of which the accused had cut 32 lockers but only 25 lockers were having goods like jewellery and cash as told by the families having lockers in the bank. Ambala SP Jashandeep Singh Randhawa told media persons that police recovered 350 grams of gold from the possession of the accused of value worth about 17 lakhs and Rs 5.5 lakh in cash besides a ‘Zen’ car bearing registration number HR-26X-7981 used in the crime. The accused had sold some goods.
SIT constituted in the case camped in Bihar and Bengal for 38 days. Apart from Ambala, the accused also committed two other crimes. The other cases were registered by the Co-operative Bank branch managers on September 14 in Radaur at Yamunanagar police station and on September 18 in Gohana police station. The strings of the incident were linked to Bihar and Bengal. Therefore, the SIT team of Ambala remained in Bengal and Bihar for about 38 days. The first accused was caught on 14 October. Ambala SP Randhawa said that Pawan Kumar a resident of Shivanandpur village of Bihar, was arrested. He had confessed to committing the crime during interrogation. Along with this, names of five other accused were also given.On this basis, November 7, the police arrested Sobind alias Sobit a resident of village Purkhojpur district Munger in Bihar, who was the mastermind of the entire scandal.
On November 18, the accused Dhruv, a resident of village Muzaffarganj police station Haveli in Kharagpur district, Munger was arrested. The fourth arrest was of Rahul, resident of Hadiya Chowk Market, Bihar. He is currently living in Delhi. He was arrested from JJ Colony Peeli Kothi Chandni Chowk Delhi. Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused are involved in the cases of robbery and POCSO Act. A case was registered against the accused Pawan in Sultanganj police station of Bhagalpur on 31 May. He had committed the robbery here. About 10 robbery cases at gunpoint are against Rahul and his cousin. On June 4, 2021, a case was registered against the mastermind in the gang Sobind Kumar alias Sobit for forced marriage, rape and under POCSO Act in Asarganj police station in Munger (Bihar).
