Cholapur Police Arrest 18-Year-Old, Hold Two Juveniles After Benipur Khurd Robbery

Cholapur police arrested an 18-year-old and took two juveniles into protection early Friday after a Wednesday-night robbery near Benipur Khurd, according to the station’s action brief. The named adult accused is Sachin, about 18, of Aura village under Cholapur police station limits in Varanasi. The two juveniles’ identities are withheld under law.

The complainant, Manoj Kumar Rajbhar of Gahni (Ayer), was returning late on Wednesday evening, 10 September 2026, by auto from a relative in Kathiraon when three unknown youths allegedly robbed him of his mobile phone and Rs 600 near Benipur Khurd. The case moved under Cholapur PS.

Police said a tip arrived Thursday night. Around 02:50 IST on Friday, 11 September, a cordon near Maa Durga Mata temple in Bhaitholi yielded the arrest. Officers recovered one mobile phone, Rs 200 and the motorcycle allegedly used in the offence. Legal action has been started. Allegations at the arrest stage remain subject to investigation and court process.

The geography is local and specific. Benipur Khurd sits on the Cholapur rural belt. Bhaitholi’s temple cordon is where the Friday morning stop landed. Aura is the village police named for the adult accused. Kathiraon is where the complainant said he had visited a relative before the late auto ride home. Those place names, not a wider gang map, are what this desk locks.

Robbery copy on a rural auto route often collapses into vague lines about youths who fled. Cholapur’s brief instead names a time, a cordon point, a recovery list and one adult accused while correctly shielding the juveniles. That distinction matters: juvenile protection is not secrecy for its own sake; it is statutory. Naming only Sachin keeps the adult track public and the juvenile track sealed.

Rs 600 and a phone are modest sums on a city crime ledger, but they are the complainant’s stated loss. Recovery of Rs 200 and one mobile does not close the arithmetic of the alleged haul; it records what police say they found at the temple-side stop. The motorcycle is the physical link officers cite between the Benipur Khurd offence narrative and the Bhaitholi arrest.

A tip on Thursday night and a cordon before 03:00 on Friday is a short turnaround for a rural station working a three-person robbery allegation. Speed does not equal a finished conviction. It does equal a named adult in custody, two juveniles in protection, and a recovery list on the station register.

This file is distinct from larger station narcotics or city-centre theft packs. It is a Cholapur PS robbery with a named adult, two unnamed juveniles in protection, and a temple-side dawn arrest. Readers who need the operational stamp can hold to Friday 02:50, Bhaitholi, Sachin of Aura, and the phone–cash–bike recovery.

Further investigation will decide how the case advances against the adult accused and how the juvenile matters proceed under the juvenile justice track. Until then, the locked police facts stand without embellishment: three alleged robbers, one adult named, two juveniles protected, phone and cash partly recovered, bike seized, legal process begun.