PORVORIM: In a major breakthrough, Porvorim Police have cracked the dacoity case which had occurred in the early hours of Monday on March 17.
As per SP North Rahul Gupta, IPS, on March 17 early morning at 03:30 am some five armed assailants had broken the door of a rented room at Marra-Pilerne in which the complainant Pappu Biswas was staying and further threatened Biswas and his wife at a knife point and committed theft of his gold ornaments worth Rs 15,00,000 (fifteen lakhs ) and cash of Rs 9,00,000 (nine lakhs).An iron rod was used to break open the latch of the door.
Accordingly an FIR was registered under sections 310(2), 127 of BNSS, 2023 and different teams were formed for tracing the accused persons.
During the investigation based on the technical evidences and CCTV footages, finally the police were able to identify the accused persons. Subsequently police have arrested five accused persons for conspiring and committing the dacoity.
The arrested accused persons are namely Joyce @ Priya D’souza, daughter of Anthony D’souza (32-year) and resident of Marra-Pilerne, Kalpana Barki, wife of . late Basavraj Barki (37-year) and . Chandanwadi, Bastora-Bardez, Imran Shaikh, son of Majid Shaikh (34-yr) and presently residing at Xel Bastora-Bardez and native of Pune, Subhash Kumar, son of Mayaram (27-yr)s and presently residing at Colvale and native of Uttar Pradesh and Dhiraj Gupta, son of Dilip Gupta (20-yr) and resident of Ganesh Nagar, Colvale.
Investigation has revealed that accused person Priya @ Joycee D’Souza was the neighbour of the complainant and was aware of the large amount of cash and the gold in possession of the complainant as she was friendly with his family.
Further Joycee planned to commit the crime along with her friends accused namely Krishna Belgaonkar and Kalpana Barki. Accused Krishna than arranged remaining accused persons and Kalpana Barki along with her friend Imran arranged for a vehicle to commit the crime. After the crime the stolen gold and cash was distributed between the accused persons at a hotel in Calangute.