Rs 65 lakh Bahadurgarh loot case solved, 6 held in Jhajjar

Jhajjar, January 4

The police on Monday claimed to have solved the Rs 65 lakh loot case with the arrest of six persons. It has also recovered Rs 47.8 lakh, a car and a motorcycle from their possession.

The accused have been identified as Vinod, Ravinder, Deepak, Krishan Kumar, Aksay of Dubaldhan and Pradeep of Pilana, Rohtak.

Jhajjar ASP Vikrant Bhushan said the accused had abducted Devaram, an employee of a Delhi-based private firm, and looted Rs 65 lakh from him in Bahadurgarh town on December 21. The victim was going to Delhi from Bahadurgarh in an auto-rickshaw after collecting the cash from Shouri Cloth Market in Rohtak.

“The Bahadurgarh police arrested Vinod of Dubaldhan village on December 30 in connection with a case booked against him under the Arms Act. During interrogation, Vinod disclosed that he along with his friends perpetrated the loot Rs 65 lakh in Bahadurgarh town on December 21. They kidnapped Devaram in a car and left him near Aasan village after looting the cash from him,” said the ASP.

He said acting swiftly on the information, a team led by Bahadurgarh CIA-2 incharge Sub Inspector Satyavaan was formed to arrest the accused. The team arrested Ravinder, Deepak, Krishan, Akshay, and Pradeep from different places on January 1. On the next day, they were produced before a court which awarded three-day police remand to them, he added. — TNS