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According to police, Verma had been allegedly readying the theft for months.
On the nighttime of November 17, Amit Verma, 35, who had been moving astatine a jewelry store successful Chandni Chowk for 10 years, asked his woman and daughters to power disconnected their phones. The adjacent morning, arsenic per CCTV footage, helium was astatine Kanha Jewellers asking its proprietor Pankaj Goyal for immoderate articles — 110 rings and 30 necklaces cumulatively weighing 1.08 kg. Since speech of jewellery is communal among jewellers of Chandni Chowk, Goyal did not fishy anything.
“However, Verma fled with the items,” said DCP (North) Raja Banthia, adding, that the accused was arrested connected November 23 with the stolen items worthy Rs 1 crore.
According to police, Verma had been allegedly readying the theft for months. “He had incurred a indebtedness of Rs 80 lakh from aggregate lenders and was nether unit to repay. That’s erstwhile helium started to see a theft astatine the store helium worked at,” a constabulary serviceman said.
According to police, since his leader utilized to nonstop him to fetch jewellery from adjacent shops, helium thought it was the easiest mode to get his hands connected immoderate costly pieces and flee. “He knew a time earlier that, an important lawsuit was going to sojourn the shop. He was already told by the proprietor that helium had to spell to Kanha Jewellers connected November 18 to get immoderate samples to amusement the customer,” an serviceman said.
CCTV footage showed Verma, aft fleeing with the stolen articles, boarding an car from Chandni Chowk and getting disconnected astatine Azad Nagar, constabulary said. “He entered a location successful the East Azad Nagar area. The nonmigratory was his friend. When the nonmigratory was questioned, helium said Verma had travel to his country connected the time of the incidental aft committing the offence and near the aforesaid time aft separating jewellery from the boxes,” said Banthia.
The accused was perpetually connected the move, hiding successful Haridwar and Saharanpur, to debar being traced. “Multiple addresses were identified successful his CDR, but nary factual leads emerged,” the DCP said.
Meanwhile, Verma asked a person successful UP’s Farrukhabad to put for the merchantability of the stolen jewels, constabulary said. However, earlier leaving, helium called his person successful East Azad Nagar. The friend, successful turn, informed the police.
“Two officers stood successful plain apparel connected the evening of November 23 astatine ISBT and a trap was laid. Verma was apprehended, and the golden articles with a nett value of 913 grams were recovered from his possession,” said DCP Banthia.
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