Talpada in police custody
VADODARA/ ANAND: Navghan Talpada, an accused who was arrested by Anand police in connection with a robbery in Kheda’s Nadiad town last week, has proved to be a big catch for the cops.
Navghan used to fly to cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai, stay in hotels for a couple of days, conduct recces before targeting unoccupied bungalows in Southern cities of India.
Sources said that the robber, who has now been handed over to Kheda police, owns two posh bungalows in Ode village of Anand’s Umreth taluka and Kheda’s Nadiad town.
These bungalows, said to be of the size of farmhouses, are equipped with digitally sophisticated 360-degree revolving CCTV cameras with night vision and motion sensors as well.
Vadodara/Anand: Anand local crime branch (LCB) and special operations group (SOG) nabbed three accused who were involved in at least dozen robberies in various parts of Central Gujarat as well as South India.
The cops have arrested the trio who had targeted a bungalow owned by owner of C M Smith & Sons Limited in Nadiad town of Kheda district and recovered gold and silver ornaments amounting to Rs 45.95 lakh from them.
Based on a tip off that the cops had received, the trio were detained from near Ganesh Chowkdi in Anand town when they were on a two-wheeler with Rs one lakh cash in a bag.