In a major achievement, the West Bengal police with the help of their Soro and Khaira counterparts on Tuesday recovered cash of over Rs 1.10 crore and arrested two culprits in a theft case.
The culprits belonging to Soro and Khaira area were identified as Nabkishor Rout (24) and Saroj Giri (23), said Soro IIC Parsuram Sahoo adding that Rs 1,10,20,000 cash was recovered from the duo against the stolen amount Rs 1,10,,80,000.
The cash belongs to one Santosh Kumar Poddar, a jeweller under Posta police station, Barabazar in West Bengal. IIC Sahoo said three persons were involved in the theft case. The one absconding is Bijay Giri. The IIC informed that Saroj and Bijoy were employed in the jewellery showroom of Poddar. They hatched a conspiracy in league with Rout to steal the cash.
On Monday, the cash was to be deposited in a bank. On Sunday, the cash was stacked in a trolley bag. The trio had decamped with the trolley bag to Baleswar. The cash bag while was with Rout, he had kept it in his sister’s house without mentioning what the bag contained.
First police nabbed Rout and recovered the cash from his sister’s house. Subsequently, Saroj was arrested.
In this connection, a case was registered in Posta police station under Section 381 of IPC and the Bengal team included Sub Inspectors Debasish Bhattacharya and Gautam Das.