The Central Crime Branch (CCB) with arrest of two youths claimed of solving the Rs8 lakh lifting incident that had occurred near Jaika Automobile at Ring Road in the city on Tuesday last.
Cash amounting to Rs6.32 lakh and a country made pistol used in the incident was also seized from their possession, police said on Sunday. The accused were nabbed from Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP)(Crime) Ajatshatru Bahadur Singh informed.
The accused were identified as Ashutosh Shukla and Manish Tiwari. One of the accused Chulbul Shukla involved in the incident is on the run, the ASP said.
Notably, on May 26, two employees of business firm who were carrying Rs8 lakh were robbed off the amount by two unidentified youths at gun point near Jaika Automobile on Ring Road.
During investigation, the CCB sleuths came to know that Manish was a driver in the business firm. Ashutosh Shukla who is friend of Manish owns a welding shop in Kushalpur. He is from Uttar Pradesh and a day before incident Ashutosh had reached Raipur along with one of his cousin brother Chulbul Shukla. They were seen roaming in a blue coloured bike, he said.
The victims had told police that the looters were in a blue coloured bike. After the incident, Ashutosh was missing from his Changorabhata home. A police team was sent to UP in search of Ashutosh who was nabbed over there.
During interrogation, he confessed of committing the crime in connivance with Manish who had chalked out the entire plan.