Cracking a major robbery case within 36 hours of the incident, the city police have arrested three persons in connection with loot of `24 lakh from an employee of Parental Drugs India Private ltd.
Among the accused included driver of the company cab Ganesh Mishra and a former employee of the PDPl Dheeraj Gurjar and his cousin lokesh Gurjar, both natives of Dudhia in Khargone district. After arresting the accused, police have also seized `24 lakh from their possession.
The incident had rocked the city two days back when an assistant manager of the PDPl, Ashok Patidar, a resident of Vaibhav Nagar, Indore carrying a cash of `24 lakh was on way to a company’s unit in a company owned Mahindra mini bus being driven by Ganesh Mishra, when two motorcycle-borne assailants intercepted the bus at ‘Srinath toll kanta’ near village Dudhiya on Nemawar road on Thursday afternoon. After forcing the bus to stop, the miscreants barged inside the bus, snatched the money bag carrying `24 lakh from the possession of Patidar after a minor scuffle and fled towards Nemawar.
After being informed about the matter, senior police officials including DIG Rakesh Gupta and SP (west) Anil Kushwaha rushed to the incident site to take stock of the situation. later a police team led by additional SP (Mhow) Arvind Tiwari was constituted to probe into the matter. On the basis of footage of the CCTV camera installed at the toll naka, police found that the speed of the mini bus was alarmingly slow when the incident took place and accordingly they suspected involvement of driver of the mini bus, Ganesh Mishra in the incident. Besides Mishra, police also suspected role of a former employee of the PDPl in the incident and accordingly it procured list of all those employees who had been ousted from the company in the past six months.
On the basis of above-mentioned clues, DIG Rakesh Gupta said, police zeroed in its investigation around two persons namely driver of the mini bus Ganesh Mishra and Dheeraj Gurjar and latter arrested them along with their accomplice lokesh after they confessed their involvement in the matter.