Month-old 'hawala' case turns out to be a sensational dacoity

Dacoits had waylaid a car in the forest and made away with Rs 1.7 crore cash last month

- SUBHASH CHANDRA N S @Ankola (Uttara Kannada)

THE incident of a car being found in Ramanguli forests near Ankola in the last week of January 2025 has turned out to be a case of dacoity. So far, it was considered to be a case of hawala transaction.

The Uttara Kannada police had found the car containing a box of money inside Ramanaguli forests near Gullapura, enroute to Ankola and Yellapur. Almost three weeks after the recovery of the car, it has emerged to be a case of dacoity where a group of miscreants chased the car that was carrying cash belonging to a jeweller from Dakshina Kannada and made away with Rs 1.7 crore cash, which was being transported by the driver and an assistant hired by the jeweller, Rajendra Prakash Pawar.

As per a complaint by Mohammed Issac, 42, the driver of the vehicle and a resident of Kudapadi in Mangaluru, he was told by Akash, assistant of the jeweller, to deliver jewellery to a Belagavi-based customer Sachin Jadav and get the money from him.