‘Chadi and Baniyan’ robbery gang busted in Odisha, 11 arrested
Eleven members of the notorious inter-state 'Chadi and Baniyan' gang were apprehended in Bhubaneswar's Dhauli area, and several stolen articles and weapons were seized from them.
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Bhubaneswar: Eleven members of the notorious inter-state 'Chadi and Baniyan' gang were apprehended in Bhubaneswar's Dhauli area, and several stolen articles and weapons were seized from them.
According to Bhubaneswar Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Prateek Singh, the gang members were involved in at least 16 burglaries in various parts of the Odisha capital and other places.
The gang members were apprehended while Dhauli Police Station officers were on night patrol. When the criminals were on their way to commit crime in a group, they were apprehended near Tarakeswar Temple near Daya river.
Garib Giri, Daulat Giri, Sunil Mogia, Malakar, Sangli Malakar, and Kunal Malakar were identified as the accused.Raju Bagri, Sankar Sigra, and Sanu BagriSantosh Das and Ramsingh Chauhan are both from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand, respectively.
The gang was involved in a string of house burglaries in Dhauli, Badagad, Laxmisagara, Airport, and Air Field areas, all while using the same method of operation.
After analyzing available CCTV footage from various locations, it was clear that they were wearing half pant / Chadi and Baniyan at the time of the crime and tying their rest wearing apparels on their waist without footwear.
They were breaking open window grills with house breaking instruments and breaking into houses between 2 and 4 a.m. They do not have a vehicle or a cell phone.
The inter-state criminals are members of the notorious 'Chadi and Baniyan' gang, also known as the "Kachha & Baniyan" or "Chadi and Gamji" groups. The gang members do not have a fixed address or place of residence. He described them as "Banjaras" in the local language.
They have been active in Odisha for the past year, staying as a group in Bhubaneswar railway station and occasionally in Cuttack and Puri railway stations. They work as laborers during the day and commit crimes late at night.
They choose footpaths to reach their target houses and target colonies near roads, newly developed areas, and less lighted areas.
After committing a crime, they flee by changing their clothes and posing as laborers in vehicles on the road. To avoid leaving a digital footprint, they never bring mobile phones to crime scenes. They sell robbed items to various people, shopkeepers, and jewelry stores.
