M’luru CCB Police arrest nine members of ‘Saheb Ganj’ gang for attempting jewellery shop heist
Accused arrived in Mangaluru 15 days ago via train to carry out theft
Mangaluru: The Mangaluru CCB police on Wednesday arrested nine members of a notorious interstate jewellery and bank robbers’ gang who were plotting to rob a jewellery store, in the jurisdiction of the Ullal police station, by boring into the wall of the store.
The police have also seized various items collected by the gang to carry out the robbery.
The Mangaluru CCB police received a verified tip-off that, on the night of November 29-30, several members of the notorious North Indian ‘Saheb Ganj’ gang of robbers were at a house in Manchila, Thokottu, and were plotting to rob a jewellery store in Thokottu by piercing the store’s wall, said sources.
CCB Police Inspector Mahesh Prasad led the operation team that successfully thwarted a full-fledged robbery attempt and arrested nine people. A native of Kanyana in Bantwal Taluk residing in Gujarat, Bhaskar Belchada (65), native of Nepal presently living in Gujarat, Dinesh Rawal aka Sagar aka Dilli (38), Jharkhand’s Muhammed Jameel Sheikh (29) and Inzamam ul Haq (27), Nepal resident Bistha Roop Singh (24), Krishna Bahadur Bogata (41), Jharkhand’s Imdadul Razzaq Sheikh (32), Bivul Sheikh (31), and Imran Sheikh (30) were held by the investigation team.
As per the police, the accused had laid out an elaborate plan to rob the Super Jewellery store in Thokottu and arrived in Mangaluru 15 days ago via the train. They had been staying at a Thokottu lodge and also rented a house near Manchila, where they were formulating a plan to carry out the robbery.
After finding the ‘Super Gold & Diamond Jewellery’ store as their next target, the accused men collected the required equipment and tools to carry out their robbery plan. Such items, including the gas cutter, oxygen cylinder, gas cylinder, gas cutting nozzle, cutting hose pipe, leather hand-gloves, iron rods, sword, Oxo-blade, hammer, screwdrivers, chilli powder, nylon rope and various other objects meant for robbery were seized by the police. The total value of the seized items is estimated to be Rs. 2.9 lakh, it is learned.
A case has been registered in this regard at the Ullal Police Station.
The arrested members of the gang had recently waylaid three two-wheelers at three different locations first in Natekal under the jurisdiction of the Konaje police, then on Ambika Road at the jurisdiction of the Ullal Police Station and lastly near Uchchila. The accused had stopped the scooters in question and abused their riders in Hindi, before assaulting them with iron rods and snatching their vehicles.
The Saheb Ganj gang members had been using such vehicles, by forcibly acquiring them from their owners after assaulting and extorting them, to travel locally as they went about plotting the scheme to rob the jewellery store. The scooters displayed with the report were also seized by the police from the arrested men, along with other items.
Among the arrested, Bhaskar Belchada, Dinesh Rawal, Inzamam ul Haq, Bistha Roop Singh, and Krishna Bahadur Bogata have prior cases related to bank robbery and jewellery store heists registered against them, across various police stations in Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Madhav Nagar in Madhya Pradesh, Thrissur in Kerala, and in Punjab.
CCB Unit’s Police Inspector Mahesh Prasad, SI Rajendra B, Pradeep T R, ASIs Shashidhar Shetty, Mohan K V, Hareesha P, and the CCB staff were a part of this operation that located and arrested the members of the Saheb Ganj gang.
Saheb Ganj Gang
The Saheb Ganj Gang is North India’s infamous gang of robbers, originating in Jharkhand. This gang also comprises members belonging to the Nepali nationality and is notorious for targeting banks and jewellery shops in big cities.
The modus operandi of the gang is to identify the place of a heist and find a temporary residence locally in either a lodge or by renting a house. It is here that the members gather and lay out plans for the robbery, and collect all the equipment and objects required for their criminal handiwork of penetrating the walls of the targeted establishments.
After breaching the walls, the gang uses glass cutters to break into the lockers and steal assets worth crores of rupees.
The members of this gang are known to have been involved in various robberies across the country in several places. As there are many Nepali nationals in this gang, after a successful robbery, they are known to flee with the stolen asset to Nepal.
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South African police arrest suspect in mass shooting that killed 12, including 3 children
Johannesburg (AP): A 32-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting which claimed the lives of 12 people including three children at an unlicensed pub earlier this month, South African police said on Monday.
The man is suspected of being one of the three people who opened fire on patrons in a pub at Saulsville township, west of South Africa's capital Pretoria, killing 12 people including three children aged 3, 12 and 16.
At least 13 people were also injured during the attack, whose motive remains unknown.
According to the police, the suspect was arrested on Sunday while traveling to Botlokwa in Limpopo province, more than 340 km from where the mass shooting took place on Dec 6.
An unlicensed firearm believed to have been used during the attack was recovered from the suspect's vehicle.
“The 32-year-old suspect was intercepted by Limpopo Tracking Team on the R101 Road in Westenburg precinct. During the arrest, the team recovered an unlicensed firearm, a hand gun, believed to have been used in the commission of the multiple murders. The firearm will be taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory for ballistic analysis,” police said in statement.
The suspect was arrested on the same day that another mass shooting at a pub took place in the Bekkersdal township, west of Johannesburg, in which nine people were killed and 10 wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire on patrons.
Police have since launched a search for the suspects.
South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and recorded more than 26,000 homicides in 2024 — an average of more than 70 a day. Firearms are by far the leading cause of death in homicides.
The country of 62 million people has relatively strict gun ownership laws, but many killings are committed with illegal guns, according to authorities.
According to police, mass shootings at unlicensed bars are becoming a serious problem. Police shut down more than 11,000 illegal taverns between April and September this year and arrested more than 18,000 people for involvement in illegal liquor sales.
