Maharashtra: Cops trace getaway route of suspects in bank dacoity

PUNE: The district rural police have traced the getaway route of the suspects, in Thursday’s armed dacoity at Bank of Maharashtra’s Pimpargaon branch in Shirur, to a specific location in neighbouring Ahmednagar district.
“The police are continuing to examine the CCTV footage collected from various locations along the route to gather more clues related to the sedan, apart from working on other clues,” said superintendent of police (Pune rural) Abhinav Deshmukh on Friday.
“The five suspects did not seem to be from outside Maharashtra as they were heard conversing with each other in Marathi,” said inspector Sureshkumar Raut from the Shirur police.
Raut said, “The final amount of the robbed loot has been assessed at Rs1.88 crore. Six employees, including a bank manager, were on duty. The suspects robbed the bank in a well-planned manner due to lack of security arrangements at the branch and fled in the direction of Ahmednagar.”
“The rural police has spread out 10 teams at various places. We are working on certain clues and hope to detect the dacoity case at the earliest,” he said while refusing to divulge more details on the ground that investigations were in progress.
Ahmednagar superintendent of police Manoj Patil said, “We conducted a nakabandi operation in the district after receiving information of the bank dacoity but could not trace the sedan. We are assisting the Pune rural police in conducting investigations.”