Port Blair, Aug 19: With a great effort of South Andaman police unit the biggest burglary case in Andaman’s history has finally been solved.
Acting very swiftly the team of South Andaman police unit, consisting of staffs of PS Aberdeen and the Burglary Squad worked out the case wonderfully and solved the case within few months.
On 14 March 2015 some people entered KS Finance & SPS Finance shop (housed in single shop) at Shivram Complex and ran away with nearly 5 KG of gold worth nearly 1 crore and 50 lakhs, which is considered as one of the biggest burglary in the history of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Although the case has been cracked and almost all accused have already been arrested by police but in this entire episode there are several gaps.
Firstly the story has proved again that how some Jewellery shops in Port Blair and also in Mainland India are buying stolen gold openly. This shows total lack of fear of law among some gold merchants of these Islands.
Secondly most of the gold was taken out of Port Blair city to Chennai, within a few days of the burglary in a well planned manner in which women, family members of the accused persons, were also allegedly involved. This shows that there are still pores in our security network as taking away nearly 3.5 to 4 kg of gold (after selling some gold in Andaman) from these Islands is not an easy task.
If such huge amount of illegal gold can be taken to mainland from Port Blair then in this same way illegal gold can also be brought inside Port Blair. Airport is a place where we are supposed to have several layers of intelligence network, which has failed completely in this case, it seems.
The most important point is that the Gold recovered from the accused in much less than the actual amount of gold the burglars took away. Many believe that it is difficult to get the stolen money as money can be spent but stolen gold can be traced out and hence in case of burglary of gold the recovery percentage is very high.
There are also allegations that gold ornaments of many accused persons have also been seized by police in this case and hence the recovery should have been more than the actual amount of gold stolen but in this case only 3.2 kg of gold could be recovered by police.
Experts believe that police team should be allowed to interrogate the accused persons for some more days so that remaining nearly 1.8 kg of gold could be traced out. As the case is in court now the hands of police is also tide-up it seems. Now the question arises what will happen to rest nearly 1.8 kg of gold? If the victim has not got his gold back and if police has not found the rest amount of gold, who will finally walk away with the cake. 1.8 kg of gold has huge market value and this angle needs special attention.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha, the former DGP Mr. Sudhir Yadav had lauded the efforts of South Andaman Police Unit consisting of Dy.SP Mr. Mohd. Aslam, SHO PS Aberdeen, Inspector Sanjay Kumar, ASI Mr. Rashid and entire PS Aberdeen and Burgarly squad team under the leadership of SP, Mr. Shibesh Singh for cracking this case. Mr. Sudhir Yadav had especially lauded the efforts of SHO PS Aberdeen, Mr. Sanjay Kumar who stayed at Chennai for nearly 50 days to arrest the accused. Hope the police team will not leave the case here and public hopes that the remaining nearly 1.8 kgs of gold will be recovered soon.
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