Dindori police arrest four within 24 hours of armed robbery at farmhouse in Ganorwadi

Dindori police have busted, in just 24 hours, a gang that carried out an armed robbery at a farmhouse in Ganorwadi in Dindori taluka. Four accused have been arrested, while a search is on for two absconding accused.

The robbery took place at about 7.45 pm on November 2, 2026. Sanjay Bhaskar Pingal was at the farmhouse on Survey No. 64 in Ganorwadi with his wife when six unidentified robbers entered the house. Threatening them with a gun, a knife, a sword and an iron sickle, they assaulted both husband and wife.

The robbers then took Rs 1.30 lakh in cash, 8.5 tola of gold jewellery, 3.5 bhar of silver jewellery, an idol of a deity kept in the prayer room and a motorcycle from the house, and fled.

A case was registered on November 3 at Dindori police station under crime number 480/2026, under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Arms Act.

The investigation was stepped up under the guidance of Superintendent of Police Dr Swami, and on the instructions of Additional Superintendent of Police Vimala M. and Sub-Divisional Police Officer Shelke of the Kalwan division. Dindori Police Inspector Bhagwan Mathure and Local Crime Branch Police Inspector More formed joint investigation teams.

Acting on information from confidential informants and a technical analysis of mobile numbers, police traced the suspects. When four accused were taken into custody and questioned, the robbery was cracked.

The arrested include Manohar Raghunath Brahmane (32, of Ganorwadi, currently living at Valkhe, Dindori taluka). The other three accused are from Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh: Guddu alias Jaykishan Prempalsingh (31), Horilal Shamsundar Hakimsingh (28) and Mukeshkumar Ratansingh (29).

Police have recovered two country-made guns, live cartridges, a chopper and the motorcycle looted in the robbery from the arrested men.