Five held for theft of Rs 2 crore from retired scientist’s house, son’s former employee among them: Police

According to Crime Branch Additional CP Sanjay Bhatia, Kawatra was employed astatine Harsh’s information appliances concern earlier helium was sacked a twelvemonth ago. However, helium remained successful interaction with different employees and got the accusation that a immense magnitude of currency was kept astatine Harsh’s house.

Kawatra conducted reconnaissance of the location connected October 15 and hatched the plan.

On October 18, 1 of the accused, posing arsenic a transportation agent, approached Sibbu Singh Verma, the retired DRDO scientist, astatine the latter’s location successful F Block, Bhatia said. The accused past allegedly pushed Verma wrong his location covering his rima and 4 different accused barged into the location arsenic Kawatra waited extracurricular the house, constabulary said.

The accused past allegedly ransacked the location arsenic they held Verma, his woman Nirmala and their younger son, Harsh Verma, astatine gunpoint, too brandishing a knife. Soon, they decamped with 260 grams of golden and astir Rs 2 crore currency kept successful cartons. “While Pawan and Ashish kept the victims astatine gunpoint and knifepoint, Kamal, Krishan and Jasmeen searched the location and took retired each the currency and jewellery items,” Bhatia said. After a constabulary complaint, officers combed done assorted CCTV footage and managed to place the suspects and the motorcycle, the registration sheet of which was concealed during the alleged theft, constabulary said.

Subsequently, constabulary zeroed successful connected Kawatra whose apprehension led them to Jasmeen, who was nabbed from Karol Bagh Sunday. “Rs 14.42 lakh, a portion of the stolen amount… was recovered from him,” Rohini DCP Amit Goel said.

Simultaneously, constabulary received a tip-off regarding the question of 2 suspects connected GT Road. A trap was laid starring to the arrests of Amandeep and Ashu. Two bags containing Rs 76 lakh and the motorcycle utilized successful the transgression were recovered from them, officers said. Another Crime Branch squad arrested Pawan and recovered Rs 34 lakh. The accused person confessed to the crime, constabulary said.