Toy sellers by the day, dacoits by night

Nagpur: City police have busted a gang of dacoits whose women members, posing as beggars and toy sellers, recced areas in the day and their men struck at desolate houses where armed looting can take place without resistance at night.
On Thursday, city police have arrested four dacoits in a joint operation with Allahabad crime branch sleuths.
After scanning recordings of nearly 100 CCTV cameras across the city and confirming their involvement with fingerprint analysis, the crime branch team under additional CP Sunil Phulari and DCP Chinmay Pandit managed to identify the gang of Madhya Pradesh’s Changiram Gosavi. The arrests were made with the help of mobile tracking technology.
Though Gosavi succeeded in giving the cops a slip, crime branch team of assistant PIs Mayur Chourasiya, Ganesh Pawar, PSI Balram Jhadokar and others managed to pick up the kingpin’s son Guru alias Akash, Nirmal Mogya, Rohit Bhagat and Pintya Mogya from Pardhi localities with the help of their Allahabad counterparts. The cyber cell had helped the team track down the locations of the culprits.
CP Amitesh Kumar, who was closely monitoring the investigation on day-to-day basis, said Gosavi, his other son and others would be soon apprehended. “This gang had a previous history of striking at different places in the city,” said the CP, adding three cases were solved after the detection which included one at a senior citizen’s house in Dabha and the one at the residence of a couple residing within the limits of Beltarodi police station. “We have also recovered valuables worth Rs4.60 lakh from them,” he said.
DCP Pandit said the gang members also acted as pickpockets in and around railway station and Sadar.
Police are learnt to have identified the gang after seeing them dispersing after each dacoity and then reuniting at RBI and LIC Squares. The kingpin Changiram was spotted in one of the footage from where the gang got identified.