2 weeks ago
1
Almost 11 days aft the equipped robbery astatine PMJ Jewellery showroom successful Karimnagar, the Karimnagar constabulary cracked the sensational lawsuit by arresting 3 members of the notorious Bihar-based Subodh Singh gang.
Those arrested person been identified arsenic 41-year-old Raghunath Karmakar of West Bengal, the premier accused successful the equipped robbery case, 23-year-old Ravish Kumar alias Pradyuman of Bihar, different accused, and 32-year-old Mehatab Khan, a SIM paper seller from West Bengal.
The constabulary identified each the 13 members of the pack including those who provided logistic enactment and receivers of the stolen golden jewellery.
The golden jewellery heist astatine the jewellery store connected May 3 hogged headlines arsenic the equipped robbers opened occurrence connected 4 employees of the shop, injuring them earlier fleeing with stolen booty (161.4 tola golden ornaments, 112-carat jewellery) worthy ₹82.02 lakh.
Multiple constabulary teams fanned retired to Bihar, Maharashtra and West Bengal soon aft the robbery.
Presenting the 3 arrested members of the pack earlier the media present connected Thursday (May 14, 2026), Karimnagar Police Commissioner Gaush Alam said the elaborate probe into the lawsuit revealed that Subodh Singh, a notorious Bihar-based gangster, known arsenic ‘Golden thief’, masterminded the robbery.
He is presently lodged successful a Purnea jailhouse successful Bihar and efforts are connected to instrumentality him into custody for questioning connected PT warrant. Our teams are inactive connected the lookout for the remaining accused who are absconding, helium added. The constabulary seized ₹51,000 successful cash, 2 mobile phones and 2 SIM cards from the arrested trio.
The pack executed the robbery successful a well-planned mode by conducting recce 2 months successful advance, stayed successful backstage lodges successful Peddapalli and Dharmapuri utilizing fake Aadhaar cards and utilized 2 motorcycles with fake fig plates, the constabulary Commissioner said.
Pistols procured
The pack procured six pistols, 12 magazines and 16 rounds from their handlers a time earlier the robbery and opened occurrence successful panic during the golden heist erstwhile 4 brave employees of the jewellery store tried to overpower them. The 4 unit members sustained non-fatal slug injuries.
The robbers utilized a pre-downloaded offline representation connected their mobile phones and fled towards Dharmapuri connected 2 motorcycles done interior roads to evade constabulary apprehension soon aft the robbery.
A smashed mobile telephone and 1 of the motorcycles, which they abandoned adjacent the banks of the Godavari astatine Dharmapuri, provided invaluable clues that led to a breakthrough successful the case.
The inter-State pack operated successful a blase mode to evade arrest. They divided into abstracted teams earlier heading towards antithetic predetermined directions.
The pack was progressive successful much than 40 cases of robbery and assorted different offences successful Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The pack adopted a unsocial modus operandi to deploy abstracted teams for recce, execution of robberies, logistic enactment for flight and merchantability of the booty, the constabulary commissioner said.
He appreciated the constabulary teams for their swift and coordinated enactment nether the wide supervision of the apical brass of the Telangana constabulary successful cracking the sensational equipped robbery lawsuit with the practice of their counterparts successful other States.
