Dacoit gang held in Karkala, property recovered

On 23-08-2007 at about 8 AM , ASP Karkala Shri Labhuram along with his staff, on specific information, intercepted a Toyota Innova and a Honda City car at Bajagoli junction and picked up the inmates Haneef, Saadiq, Navile Anand, Kadur Chandra, Siddaraju and Asif of Kaup. On questioning them, they could not explain their presence clearly and so were later subjected to thorough interogation by the police team. They then confessed to a series of dacoities commited in Shimoga, Haveri and Chikmagalur districts and also confessed that they were making preparations for a dacoity at Bajagoli. All six were thus arrested and a case was taken up at Karkala rural PS in Cr No. 113/07 U/s 41(1) (d) , 102 CrPC and Sec's 379, 399, 400, 333 of IPC. The six were produced before the Magistrate the same evening and police custody was sought for the four accused Haneef, Saadiq, Anand and Chandra in view of the offences already committed. During the 10 days of police custody the following property belonging to various offences committed by them were recovered.

1. Toyota Innova car bearing registration no. KA- 19 P -7805
   
2. Honda City carbearing registration no. KA- 25 N -3990
   
3. Sandal wood, worth 1.9 lakh Rs (Stolen from Hosanagara, Shimoga)
   
4. AC SR Cable worth Rs 2000/-


5. Toyota Qualis vehicle bearing registration no. KA-19 -P-5881
   
6. Maruthi 800 car bearing registration no. KA-03-P-1642


7. Yamaha RX bike
   
8. Maruthi Omni car bearing registration no. KA-20- N-0274


9. Maruthi Esteem car bearing registration no. KA-19-M- 4180


10. Property used to commit the offences, like cutting instruments

Of the accused, Mohhammed Haneef @ Kammaraddi Haneef is a notorious dacoit belonging to Koppa Chikmagalur, involved in about 10 cases including a murder, a jail break and a fake passport. Most of his robberies and dacoities have been committed in Shimoga district. Mohammed Saadiq belonging to Kadur, Chikmagalur is involved in about 10 cases of theft, robbery and dacoity. Anand of Vinobha nagar, Shimoga, Chandra of Kadur and Siddaraju of Arsikere, Hassan have 5, 4 and 3 cases against them respectively.

In further investigation police also arrested three more accused by name Kamaradi Majid 25yrs, Hariyarpura Venktesh 28 yes and Bellgola Ramesh who are involved in theft of sandal wood from hosnagara court complex.

More property like stolen gold ornaments and sandalwood which were disposed off in Mumbai and Goa respectively, are still to be recovered and investigation is in progress. The property so far recovered is worth about Rs 22, 22,000/-.