copper robbery case

A gang of robbers allegedly barged into a factory at Badalpur in Greater Noida in the early hours of Saturday and robbed goods and copper wires worth Rs 20 lakh, after taking the security guard hostage.

The Thane rural crime branch busted a gang involved in stealing copper wires from transformers.Three persons have been arrested in the case.

A special MCOCA court in Thane acquitted three men in a 2018 copper robbery case. The accused faced charges under MCOCA and IPC. The case involved the theft of copper coils worth over ₹1.54 crore. The court cited lapses in investigation and failure to secure key witnesses. The judge ordered the release of the accused and return of seized goods.

The Pune rural police have arrested three suspects for allegedly stealing copper from the transformers belonging to Maharastra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL).

With the arrest of five persons, the Thane rural police claims to have solved a case in which the accused allegedly stole five tonnes of copper wires worth Rs 24 lakh from a tempo at Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway on August 12.

Five persons have been arrested in connection with a dacoity case at Bhaveghar in Wada that was committed on September 29.

in Pawane MIDC and, after threatening the security guard, decamped with copper wires worth Rs 10 lakh on Sunday around 6.30 pm.When the guard opened the gate and allowed them to enter, they gagged and threatened him.

A gang based in Mumbai had looted copper pipes, plates and scrap from the premises of Global Copper Ltd on the night of January 14.

The property cell of the city crime branch has arrested a gang of four highway robbers that used to rob containers and trailers carrying industrial goods. The gang would then sell off the goods in Gujarat.

The crime branch of the Pune police on Saturday nabbed a gang of five men in Kharadi who had robbed copper wires worth Rs 75 lakh from a company in Ranjangaon MIDC, about 50km from the city, on August 12.

A railway Inspector in Secunderabad who solved several train robberies received the Indian Police Medal for meritorious service. Udugu Narasimha, a cop with 24 years of service, helped solved several robbery cases and also busted gangs of touts.

The frequency of robberies on NH-8 has gone up, with trucks plying on the highway at night being targeted the most.

GPS technology is helping truck owners track highway robbers.

Unidentified men stole copper wires used by the MTNL worth Rs 2 lakh from the area near vandana talkies on Sunday night

Of the nine robberies committed in North Goa since January 2008, seven have been detected and almost all the accused in the cases were local boys - many of whom were involved in petty offences as juveniles, the police informed.

Police are yet to make a breakthrough a day after about 25 robbers looted Rs 17-lakh goods from a transformer-manufacturing factory in Focal Point after holding its employees hostage.

When Viswaveer Singh, a truck driver from Uttar Pradesh, was held by the Eppothumvendran police in Tuticorin in 2012 on charges of possessing a pistol without licence, he surprised police by saying that ferrying copper consignments to and from Sterlite plant in Tuticorin was a dangerous journey and he bought the pistol for self-defence.

In the wake of rising incidents of theft in coal mines, washeries and other such places, Central Coalfields Limited has planned to install hidden CCTV cameras night equipped with night surveillance system.

With the arrest of 12 alleged criminals belonging to two different gangs of highway robbers, special staff of north-east district claimed to have solved over six cases of robberies that took place in the past couple of months.

National Highway 4 be tween Chennai and Bangalore appears to have turned into a soft target for robbers, especially between Chennai and Kancheepuram.

The timely intervention of the special task force of south Delhi prevented a city industrialist from being robbed of Rs 50 lakh. Acting on a tip-off, police nabbed the robbers near the Nelson Mandela Marg minutes before they could target him.