Three miscreants who colluded to steal Betel nuts worth Rs 25 lakh of Banglore based trader were nabbed by the Gautam Nagar police on Sunday.
According to the police Vidhya Sagar Transport handed over a delivery of goods for Areka Nuts Company from Banglore to Ghaziabad on December 16 but the truck owner and driver sold the beetle nuts to a city based trader at Rs 8 lakh.
On December 24, 2013 the truck loaded with Betel nuts arrived in the city and after the truck reached city it was unloaded and the goods were sold at Rs 8 lakh to Rahul Gupta. On the pretext of some technical mistake it was taken to mechanic market at Chola area.
After two days on December 27, 2013 truck owner Israr-Ul-Haq along with his driver Kamlesh Shakya took the truck in the night abandoned the truck near Berasia. Both Areka Nuts Company and Vidhya Sagar Transport were told that the truck has been stolen but the branch manager of Bhopal Yogesh Jain of Vidhya Sagar Transport was not willing to accept the incident and lodged a complaint with the Gautam Nagar police.