Our Correspondent
DIGBOI: “Acting swiftly within 20 minutes of receiving a phone call from an unknown user about a gang of robbers fleeing in a new Scorpio towards Digboi after committing a robbery in the Digboi-Pengaree road amidst Upper Dehing Reserve Forest, I turned my vehicle to a new vulnerable route amidst a paddy field expecting a head-on confrontation,” said Mahesh Chandra Bora, the Inspector of Digboi Police Station who held one of the four dacoits speeding on the same road which connects to NH-38. Bora was recalling his ordeal on Wednesday evening at the police station.
According to the copy of FIR, Sujit Kumar Sarma, the manager at Pengaree petrol depot was returning to his Digboi-based residence on a two-wheeler on Tuesday evening after work when he was intercepted by a gang of robbers in the middle of the forest along the Digboi-Pengaree road. The dacoits snatched his hand bag containing around Rs 5,000. They also snatched the key of his two-wheeler and fled the place after some vehicles carrying tea leaves passed that way. The victim returned to Pengaree on one such vehicle with his Scooty without the key.
“One of the dacoits, identified as Nayan Deka Baruah (24) of Nemukur village under Demow Police Station in Sivsagar district, was arrested while other three managed to escape. The new Bolero vehicle without registration number belonged to Nayan Deka Baruah,” said Inspector Bora. The other three local accomplices - Rinku Sonowal of Khalgaon, Mintu Gogoi of Muliabari and Utpal Dutta of Tingrai, all under Digboi police station, were at large till filing of the report. All three are drivers by profession and drive different kinds of passenger vehicles in the Digboi-Pengaree road in Tinsukia district. “We have registered a case (232/19) u/s 392 IPC,” said police officials, adding, “The three accomplices cannot escape the legal grip for long.”
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