Police dog Siba identifies suspects from footwear, helps Pune Rural cops crack brutal armed robbery case

With the assistance of a two-year-old crime investigation canine named Siba, Pune Rural Police have solved a case of armed dacoity at a home in Ranjangaon space. 5 individuals had been brutally attacked by a gang and gold and silver ornaments price hundreds looted throughout the theft.

The armed dacoity occurred in the home situated in an agricultural area in Gawade Vasti hamlet of Karegaon village close to Ranjangaon industrial space in Pune district round 2 am on January 29. Not less than 5 males, armed with picket sticks and iron rods, had brutally attacked 5 individuals sleeping below a tin shed within the yard of the home. The robbers had mercilessly crushed up the 5 individuals, together with two ladies, earlier than looting their gold and silver valuables and even snatching the earrings worn by the ladies. The robbers had escaped with valuables price Rs 75,000.

Throughout investigation, police groups discovered deserted footwear on the scene of the crime, left behind by one of many robbers whereas fleeing.

With the assistance of the outline given by victims of the assault, a police sketch artist made sketches of among the suspects. Chatting with The Indian Express, Inspector Sureshkumar Raut stated, “After receiving sketches from the artist, we cross-referenced them with our database of criminals on report.”

Additional narrowing down the listing with the assistance of technical knowledge, police zeroed in on 5 suspects via this particular thread of clues.

At this level within the investigation, police determined to take the assistance of police canine Siba. For definitive identification, together with the 5 individuals recognized by police as main suspects, police added 5 extra individuals of their very own for the identification parade. With the assistance of the scent of the footwear left behind, Siba shortly pointed to 2 of the individuals. Siba was rewarded with its favorite snack after profitable identification of the suspects.

Upon additional investigation and questioning, police confirmed the function of the 2 suspects within the armed dacoity and so they had been positioned below arrest two days in the past. The arrested suspects are brothers and have been recognized as Deepak Manchakya Bhosale (23) and his youthful brother Suraj (20).

“Additional probe is on to establish and arrest the remaining suspects within the case,” stated Inspector Raut.

Siba, a two-year-old dobermann, joined lively obligation within the canine squad of Pune Rural Police six months in the past, after ending her nine-month-long specialised coaching in crime investigation on the police canine coaching faculty of the Felony Investigation Division in Pune. It was recruited in power on the age of two months and after spending some interval of familiarisation and primary coaching, it joined the specialised module. Siba’s two full-time handlers are police constables Ganesh Phapale and B S Chaudhari, who’ve been with it because the canine’s recruitment within the power.

Within the span of simply six months of lively obligation, Siba has helped police get essential clues in a number of critical crime instances, together with a street theft at Bhigwan, a homicide case and a case wherein a girl was molested and was brutally injured within the eyes whereas attempting to cease the attacker.

Together with Inspector Raut, the investigation crew consisted of Assistant Inspector SJ Yele, Sub-Inspector Shubhangi Kute and Constabulary from Ranjangaon police station and Native Crime Department of Pune Rural Police.