KOLKATA: Four interstate robbers – arrested for carrying out a daylight robbery at a top jewellery chain store at Ranaghat on August 29 last year have been convicted on Wednesday by a local court.
The trial, which started on November 29, was completed in less than two months. The charges were framed on November 23. The entire case has thus been completed within nearly six months from the day of the incident with 35 witnesses named by the prosecution.
The accused – Kundan Kumar Yadav, Raju Kumar Paswan, Rikki Kumar Paswan, Chhattu Kumar – has been convicted under IPC sections 395 (Punishment for dacoity), 397 (Robbery, or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) and 307 (attempt to murder) along with 412 (Dishonestly receiving property stolen in the commission of a dacoity), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) 120 (criminal conspiracy) and & 25/27 Arms Act. The sentencing is likely to be on Thursday.
Kundan, a wanted criminal from Bihar, is also one of the main accused in the murder of Asansol politician Raju Jha who was shot dead at Shaktigarh on the highway last year. A fifth accused Manikant Yadav died in the hospital after getting hit by a bullet during the exchange of fire by the police on August 29 last year. One Kaustav Dutta, the store manager, submitted a complaint in this case to Ranaghat Police.
Five arms, 25 rounds of ammunition, the looted booty being the ornaments, cash, three motorcycles, four mobile phones, bags along with other articles were recovered from their possession, special public prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee submitted before court.
Multiple pieces of evidence helped in getting the conviction, claimed the prosecution. “The CCTV footage exhibited as digital evidence and identified by the eye witnesses in the open court helped. The forensic report has opined after comparing the sample picture with that of the CCTV footage that the suspects found in the CCTV footage are identical with that of the sample pictures and videos of gait pattern of the accused persons.
The tags were connected with the recovered ornaments, having specific logo and bar codes and tag numbers of the jewellery chain. The hallmark number present on the seized ornaments matched and a special data – the HUID data – obtained from the public domain of Bureau of Indian Standards were also matched with recovered ornaments to show that these were the looted ornaments,” stated the prosecution.
The trial, which started on November 29, was completed in less than two months. The charges were framed on November 23. The entire case has thus been completed within nearly six months from the day of the incident with 35 witnesses named by the prosecution.
The accused – Kundan Kumar Yadav, Raju Kumar Paswan, Rikki Kumar Paswan, Chhattu Kumar – has been convicted under IPC sections 395 (Punishment for dacoity), 397 (Robbery, or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) and 307 (attempt to murder) along with 412 (Dishonestly receiving property stolen in the commission of a dacoity), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) 120 (criminal conspiracy) and & 25/27 Arms Act. The sentencing is likely to be on Thursday.
Kundan, a wanted criminal from Bihar, is also one of the main accused in the murder of Asansol politician Raju Jha who was shot dead at Shaktigarh on the highway last year. A fifth accused Manikant Yadav died in the hospital after getting hit by a bullet during the exchange of fire by the police on August 29 last year. One Kaustav Dutta, the store manager, submitted a complaint in this case to Ranaghat Police.
Five arms, 25 rounds of ammunition, the looted booty being the ornaments, cash, three motorcycles, four mobile phones, bags along with other articles were recovered from their possession, special public prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee submitted before court.
Multiple pieces of evidence helped in getting the conviction, claimed the prosecution. “The CCTV footage exhibited as digital evidence and identified by the eye witnesses in the open court helped. The forensic report has opined after comparing the sample picture with that of the CCTV footage that the suspects found in the CCTV footage are identical with that of the sample pictures and videos of gait pattern of the accused persons.
The tags were connected with the recovered ornaments, having specific logo and bar codes and tag numbers of the jewellery chain. The hallmark number present on the seized ornaments matched and a special data – the HUID data – obtained from the public domain of Bureau of Indian Standards were also matched with recovered ornaments to show that these were the looted ornaments,” stated the prosecution.