Five sentenced to 10 years in robbery case

Vadodara, June 15 (UNI) A fast track court here today sentenced five persons, part of an eight-member gang, to 10 years imprisonment for looting silver strips worth Rs 60 lakh in 2003.

However, the court acquitted three persons for lack of evidence.

Fast track court sessions judge V J Mehta found Nasir Khan Mehmood (resident of Ramol village of Ahmedabad district), Imran Anwar Pathan (of Ramol), Irshad Ahmed Sheikh (Ramol), Zahiruddin Dawood Mansoori (Ramol) and Zahir Mian Umrao Mallick (Anand) guilty and awarded the sentence.

The court acquitted Mohammad Siddiqui Zafar (Anand), Jamal Abdul Kader Momin (Danilimda of Ahmedabad) and Mohammad Salim Sheikh (Kheda).

In October 10, 2003, the eight-member gang had looted a truck carrying silver strips worth Rs 60 lakh, which were kept with rice bags. The desperados had waylaid the truck soon after it left Karzan bypass, 30 km from here, on way to Kolhapur. They then took the truck to Madhya Pradesh, where the silver strips were taken away leaving behind the truck and its driver Osman Sheikh. However, all the gang members were caught soon after the incident after the truck driver Osman Sheikh identified them, according to prosecution.

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