Yamunanagar police bust fake Rs 20-L robbery plot

A joint team of CIA-I and CIA-II of the Yamunanagar Police has exposed a fabricated robbery case involving Rs 20 lakh, allegedly staged by a local businessman to embezzle money from his family.

Police spokesperson Chamkaur Singh said that under the supervision of Superintendent of Police Kamaldeep Goyal, the joint team uncovered that Ashish Aggarwal of Pratap Nagar had concocted the fake robbery along with his employees.

Aggarwal, who owns a rice mill, a filling station and a commission agency, had lodged a complaint claiming that while travelling with his driver, Sunny Walia, on the intervening night of October 22 and 23, their car was intercepted near Shahjahanpur village on the Chhachhrauli–Paonta Sahib road by a black car with no number plate.

He alleged that two masked men smashed the car’s windscreen with iron rods, threatened them at gunpoint and fled with a bag containing Rs 20 lakh. A case was subsequently registered at Chhachhrauli Police Station.

However, during investigation, police discovered that Ashish, along with his driver Sunny and three petrol pump workers — Pradeep, Sonu and Sushil — had fabricated the incident to misappropriate Rs 20 lakh. All accused have been identified and the entire amount recovered.