Prakasam police have won a double at the State-level cracking two tough cases after intense probe.
Police were clueless when a five-year-old tribal girl went missing. Painstaking efforts of the police for over a month led to breakthrough in the case relating to rape and murder of the minor girl by a 30-year-old vagabond, also a tribal, to win the Best Crime Detection award at the State-level, Superintendent of Police B.Satya Yesu Babu said on Wednesday.
The district also won the third prize in crime detection by nabbing four offenders from Odisha who decamped with cash drawn by a bank customer in Parchur. Nabbing of the offenders led to resolving mystery behind 10 such cases in different parts of the State, he said.
Giving details of the first case, the SP said the vagabond, who committed the offence after luring the girl by buying goodies when her father was busy buying liquor, had abandoned the mobile phone of the victim’s father. He did not use any mobile phone of his own to avoid tracking by the police. Persistent probe led to breakthrough in the case with the arrest of the accused on August 30.
In the second case, Parchur police were clueless when four offenders from Odisha kept a close watch on a person withdrawing ₹3 lakh from a bank branch and left the cash in the motorcycle itself while going to pay her daughter’s school fees on July 10. After analysing a series of similar incidents elsewere in the State by the Parchur police led to finding similarities in another crime committed by the offenders in Vuyyurru in Krishna district.
A thorough analysis of cell tower dump helped the police zero in on the offenders — M. Kantaiah (70), M.Srinu (26), M. Raja (20) and R.M. Babu (25) — and nab them two months after the theft to recover from them ₹10.80 lakh of the ₹12.36 lakh stolen by them in 10 such crimes.
