Gurugram heist: Arrest warrant against absconding IPS officer Dheeraj Kumar Setia

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, December 18

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A local court issued an arrest warrant against an Indian Police Service officer whose name was linked to investigations into a heist in Gurugram that runs into crores of rupees.

IPS officer Dheeraj Kumar Setia was issued on a Special Task Force’s request B. Sathees Balan, the Deputy Inspector General of the Gurugram Special Task Force, which is investigating the case, said. Setia, a 2013 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre who was the commandant of the 3rd IRB at Sunaria, Rohtak, until he was suspended last week over the case, is one of several people whose involvement is suspected in the heist in which Rs 30 crore was stolen from a builder’s flat in Gurugram’s Sector 82.

Criminal charges were filed against Setia—who’s still on the run—after a local court took cognizance of a “confessional statement” by Sachender Jain Nawal, a doctor who was arrested in the case. In his statement, Nawal had allegedly admitted to paying the cop to help cover up his own involvement in the case.

Setia faces criminal charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act and under Section 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) of the Indian Penal Code.

Investigators recently arrested a close aide of a gangster, Vikas Lagarpurya, who’s believed involved in the theft from the builder’s flat. Police identified the person arrested as Ajit, a Bhiwani native. Security images that investigators got showed him holding a bag full of cash.

STF has him in their custody for five days.

Ajit’s arrest takes the number of people involved in the case to 14, among them a Delhi cop and two doctors.