2 held for trying to snatch bag containing cash | Prayagraj News
Prayagraj: Kaushambi police on Tuesday arrested two men who had allegedly made an abortive bid to rob a Gujarat based trader Bhavesh Kumar Barot near Jaiswal eatery on May 15 after they snatched the bag of the trader travelling from Prayagraj to Delhi. Gujarat-based snatchers were identified as Praveen Singh Devda and Devda Nirmal Singh, residents of Banaskantha (Gujarat). The duo tried to loot to pay their loans and dues.The snatching of the bag containing the amount turned out to be a heist bid, as the snatchers’ actions caused the bag to open and the cash inside spilled onto the road. A strong gust of wind further scattered the currency notes, leading to a scramble by bystanders for the money. Co-passengers and dhaba staff intervened, collected the scattered notes, and handed them back to the trader.After registering an FIR regarding the incident, SP (Kaushambi) Rajesh Kumar constituted three police teams, including SOG and surveillance, to ensure the arrest of the snatchers. After scanning suspicious mobile numbers and CCTV footage, cops managed to arrest two out of three miscreants involved in the snatching incident.Arrested miscreant Devra Nirmal Singh told police that his maternal uncle, Patel Dhawal Kumar, informed him that a trader with good amount of money was travelling by a luxury bus from Prayagraj to Delhi on May 15 and asked him to snatch the bag containing the amount. As the accused had to pay their long-pending dues and clear loans, Nirmal Singh inducted his cousin Praveen Singh Devda in his plan. According to the plan, they first reached Prayagraj from Gujarat and stayed in Prayagraj for a day. Miscreants booked seats in the same bus the trader bookedand decided to snatch the bag whenever the bus stopped near an eatery joint.On the night of May 15, when the bus stopped near a dhaba, they first stepped out from the bus as per the plan and managed to snatch the bag. As the duo tried to snatch his bag filled with currency notes, it burst open, and the notes spilled out, scattering in the wind.Upon being alerted, police later intervened to retrieve the businessman’s cash from the people who collected it.Police, however, claimed that they were probing why the trader was carrying such a huge amount of cash with him despite the availability of online transaction modes for the collection of the amount.
