How a sniffer dog helped police crack a case of theft worth Rs 3.58 lakh from a highway rest house in Gujarat

Police Inspector RB Karmatiya said, “Every transgression country has immoderate grounds near down by the transgression and so, forensic experts and sniffer dogs travel successful handy. We detained the suspects arsenic per quality intelligence, which included workers astatine the remainder location arsenic good arsenic locals from surrounding villages.”

Police past lined up the 15 suspects and called implicit Silky, the dog, which had already sniffed the transgression country thoroughly successful the beingness of forensic subject experts.

“Silky’s handler took the canine astir the transgression scene, particularly the spot wherever the locker was kept. The canine was capable to place the accused from a queue of 15 suspects,” Karmatiya said.

The accused was identified arsenic Chirag Valand, a nonmigratory of Valand Faliya of Dora village.

On being detained, Valand allegedly confessed to his transgression and directed the investigators to a spot adjacent a canal successful Telod colony wherever helium had disposed of the locker, bag, and different items stolen successful the crime.

“We person recovered the locker arsenic good arsenic the currency amounting to Rs 3.58 lakh on with the recognition paper and different belongings that the accused had taken away. Following his arrest, the accused was produced successful tribunal connected Thursday and remanded to judicial custody. As the betterment of the stolen objects had been completed, the remand exertion was not granted by the court,” said the inspector.