<p>Three police constables from Andhra Pradesh, who posed as senior staffers of the Income Tax department and robbed a man of Rs 27.5 lakh in Bengaluru, were arrested by the City Central Division Police in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh.</p>.<p>The suspects were identified as B V Shekhar, 40, a resident of Estate Road in Muzzafarnagar, Kurnool district; K Sathyanarayan, 41, Kurnool; and B Jayanna, 43, Adoni in Kurnool.</p>.<p>According to DCP (Central) Sandeep Patil, M Aleem Baig, a jeweller at Emmiganuru in Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh, had sent his staffer Tipu Sultan with a bag containing Rs 27.5 lakh in cash to Bengaluru to purchase gold on March 12.</p>.<p>The three constables were tipped off about Sultan’s visit and followed him to Bengaluru. Sultan, who travelled to the City by a KSRTC bus, alighted near the Indian Oil Corporation petrol bunk near Mysore Bank Circle. <br /><br />Minutes later, Shekhar, Sathyanarayan and Jayanna, accosted Sultan and introduced themselves as senior staffers from the Income Tax department. They claimed they had some information that Sultan was carrying unaccounted-for money and hence wanted to interrogate him. They took him in a car towards the airport, said the police.<br /><br />They asked him a series of questions regarding the money, its source, why and where he wanted to buy gold and why his owner had not come to purchase the precious metal. <br />Later, they took Sultan to another spot and changed the car. Theuy collected Sultan’s bag and sometime later, abandoned him on the road and sped away, added the police.<br /><br />Sultan approached the Halasuru Gate police and lodged a complaint in this regard. The police had some information that three persons had followed Sultan and they were from Kurnool. </p>.<p>A special team was constituted to trace and arrest the suspects. Based on specific inputs, the trio was arrested and produced before the court, which remanded them in police custody.<br /><br />The three policemen had availed themselves of a day’s leave only to commit the crime, the DCP said.<br /><br />Chain snatched<br /><br />Two bike-borne persons robbed a gold chain, weighing 12 grams, from a woman in front of her residence in JP Nagar 1st Stage recently.<br /><br />According to police, Uma was playing badminton along with her relative in front of her residence. Two miscreants came on a bike. One of them got down from the bike and snatched away the gold chain before fleeing, the police added.</p>
<p>Three police constables from Andhra Pradesh, who posed as senior staffers of the Income Tax department and robbed a man of Rs 27.5 lakh in Bengaluru, were arrested by the City Central Division Police in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh.</p>.<p>The suspects were identified as B V Shekhar, 40, a resident of Estate Road in Muzzafarnagar, Kurnool district; K Sathyanarayan, 41, Kurnool; and B Jayanna, 43, Adoni in Kurnool.</p>.<p>According to DCP (Central) Sandeep Patil, M Aleem Baig, a jeweller at Emmiganuru in Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh, had sent his staffer Tipu Sultan with a bag containing Rs 27.5 lakh in cash to Bengaluru to purchase gold on March 12.</p>.<p>The three constables were tipped off about Sultan’s visit and followed him to Bengaluru. Sultan, who travelled to the City by a KSRTC bus, alighted near the Indian Oil Corporation petrol bunk near Mysore Bank Circle. <br /><br />Minutes later, Shekhar, Sathyanarayan and Jayanna, accosted Sultan and introduced themselves as senior staffers from the Income Tax department. They claimed they had some information that Sultan was carrying unaccounted-for money and hence wanted to interrogate him. They took him in a car towards the airport, said the police.<br /><br />They asked him a series of questions regarding the money, its source, why and where he wanted to buy gold and why his owner had not come to purchase the precious metal. <br />Later, they took Sultan to another spot and changed the car. Theuy collected Sultan’s bag and sometime later, abandoned him on the road and sped away, added the police.<br /><br />Sultan approached the Halasuru Gate police and lodged a complaint in this regard. The police had some information that three persons had followed Sultan and they were from Kurnool. </p>.<p>A special team was constituted to trace and arrest the suspects. Based on specific inputs, the trio was arrested and produced before the court, which remanded them in police custody.<br /><br />The three policemen had availed themselves of a day’s leave only to commit the crime, the DCP said.<br /><br />Chain snatched<br /><br />Two bike-borne persons robbed a gold chain, weighing 12 grams, from a woman in front of her residence in JP Nagar 1st Stage recently.<br /><br />According to police, Uma was playing badminton along with her relative in front of her residence. Two miscreants came on a bike. One of them got down from the bike and snatched away the gold chain before fleeing, the police added.</p>
