Highway robbery case turns on its head in Karnataka: complainant in dock after police recover Rs 1 crore from secret box in his car

The constabulary said they registered a lawsuit and began a probe to hint the car. They aboriginal recovered it abandoned adjacent the Nerli colony successful the Hukkeri taluk successful Belagavi.

According to a constabulary officer, Suraj claimed that helium had sold golden ornaments and had kept Rs 75 lakh successful a specially made container successful the car. But erstwhile constabulary seized the car and checked to retrieve the money, they recovered currency worthy Rs 1.01 crore successful it.

Bheemashankar S Guled, Superintendent of Police, Belagavi, stated connected Monday that the complainant had installed a 2×2 feet container with a extent of six inches and a fastener to unfastened it. “We person taken Suraj, his conveyance operator Areef Sheikh, and his person Ajay Saragar to constabulary custody for further questioning,” said Guled.

“We person recovered that the golden ornaments belonged to a antheral named Bharat successful Kerala. He sent Suraj to merchantability the ornaments to 2 people. The alleged robbery took spot erstwhile Suraj and his associates were returning. We fishy they tried to instrumentality the constabulary by cooking up a robbery communicative to bargain the money,” Guled said.